Donne's idealistic love finds its expression in poems affirming and celebrating true love, and these poems portray a much broader world for readers.

In the case of Michelangelo, he also understood women and wrote poetry particularly towards the end of his life and it is love poetry of sorts that people were writing men about women.

This courtly poetry came out of the idea of chivalry and courtly love that you might associate with knights in shining armor.