| Love and its attendant passions has been the | | | | Salvador, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, The Philippines, |
| favorite subject of Spanish poetry since the time | | | | Puerto Rico, The United States, Uruguay and |
| of the troubadours, medieval poets who earned | | | | Venezuela which were written in Spanish but |
| their keep by singing for the people at the village | | | | whose authors were not from Spain. All these |
| square or for the nobility during royal gatherings | | | | poets and their respective poems have |
| at the palace. Composers in their own right, these | | | | contributed in some way to the development of |
| court poets sang about courtly love and the | | | | Spanish Poetry as a genre because they all wrote |
| bittersweet pain of unattained love for an idealized | | | | their work in Spanish albeit in the form of Spanish |
| woman using the jarchas, a form of love song | | | | common to their country of origin. Although some |
| that was actually poetry written in very short | | | | of them wrote patriotic poems about their |
| stanzas.It is important in the study of Spanish | | | | motherland, most of them utilized images of love |
| love poems to differentiate between poems that | | | | to depict the sorrow of a country that has lost |
| originated from countries outside of Spain including | | | | its freedom. |
| Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, El | | | | |