In the 23rd poem in the troubadours, the speaker talks about being lured into love like a fish to the bait. I thought that was a clever comparison. It hints that the woman he is after is somehow enchanting him, though likely without knowing it. He says his love puts him in chains, and that she doesn't love him. Perhaps he is trying to say that entertaining the thought of loves for her, was too reckless? It seems like a hopeless love, because he says that he wishes that he could find a fault in her, but he can find none. It is like he's looking for a reason to stop loving her, any reason, because it is detrimental to love someone who does not love you back. And not just in a practical sense, but in the fact that his desire for her trumps all desire s for other women, therefore, he desperately is searching for a desire in someone who does love him.
I read the second poem in the Trobairitz reading. I think it is about a noble woman who wishes for the man to lover her back, and that even though he could be the desire of many women, she is the one best suited for him, as she is intelligent and of noble birth. The more I think about it the more it seems like the two were lovers, and he broke up with her, or that she has sent him signals that she thought clearly meant she was interested, but he was oblivious. So this is a letter confessing her confusion. Or so it seems to me.
It seems the male poets talk in a more metaphorical way than the females. They talk from a position that could be anyone, like surrealist paintings that show a generic person, like an everyman/woman. It could be anyone.
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