Courtly Love has survived through the years, managing to evolve from Shakespeare to Aerosmith. It is safe to say the form through which Courtly Love is expressed has changed in the process of evolution. We no longer go around reciting poetry to those we admire, or how many people read poetry for the sake of it. Rather, we demonstrate Courtly Love through the novels, music, and movies that we read, watch, and listen to. But the heart and soul of Courtly Love still remains in contemporary works.
Matchbox_20 and there current hit song "If your gone" demonstrates this perfectly. It does an excellent job of showing unrequited love, which is a major subject in Courtly Love works. The song is the story of a man who wants his girlfriend to come back to him after an apparently bad break up. These are a few of the lines from the song which help to best summarize the song.
If your gone, baby you need to come home, there's a whole lot of bre
You look at her she looks at me, she's got me thinking about her constantly, but she don't know how I feel.
As you can see from the lines above this song doesn't exactly follow the mold of unrequited love.
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