 Both troubadours and trobairitz wrote of fin ' amors , or courtly love . Women were generally the subject of the writings of troubadours , however : " No other group of poets give women so exalted a definition within so tightly circumscribed a context of female suppression . " The tension between the suppression of women present in the poetry of the troubadours and similar themes in the poetry of the trobairitz is a major source of discussion for modern commentators . Trobairitz poetry pertaining to love tended to offer a less idealized conception of the subject than the poetry of their male counterparts , with a more conversational and less flourished style of writing intended to more closely emulate a more grounded vision of relationships . The trobairitz wrote in the canso ( strophic song ) and tenso ( debate poem ) genres . Besides cansos and tensos , trobairitz also wrote sirventes ( political poems ) , planh ( lament ) , salut d ’ amor ( a love letter not in strophic form ) , alba ( dawn songs ) , and balada ( dance songs ) . Judging by what survives today , the trobairitz wrote no pastorelas or malmariee songs , unlike their troubadour counterparts . Furthermore , in keeping with the troubadour tradition , the trobairitz closely linked the action of the singing to the action of loving . Comtessa de Dia demonstrates this in her poem Fin ioi me don 'alegranssa , stating that " Fin ioi me dona alegranssa / per qu 'eu chan plus gaiamen , " translated as " Happiness brings me pure joy / which makes me sing more cheerfully . " 
