 Both troubadours and trobairitz wrote of fin ' <unk> , 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 <unk> ( strophic song ) and <unk> ( debate poem ) genres . Besides <unk> and <unk> , trobairitz also wrote <unk> ( political poems ) , <unk> ( lament ) , <unk> d ’ amor ( a love letter not in strophic form ) , alba ( dawn songs ) , and <unk> ( dance songs ) . Judging by what survives today , the trobairitz wrote no <unk> or <unk> 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 . <unk> de Dia demonstrates this in her poem Fin <unk> me don <unk> , stating that " Fin <unk> me dona <unk> / per qu <unk> chan plus <unk> , " translated as " Happiness brings me pure joy / which makes me sing more cheerfully . " 
