The language of birds and the idea of poetry

This text explores the relation of songs of birds with the virile development of young men and poetry in the European cultural space both from the Middle Ages, through the songs of troubadours, as well as from the rural contemporary World. The article also considers how the great majority of famous societies bring birds to a particular competence in amorous relationship, either erotic or sentimental, and how this supposed knowledge feeds the illustrated expression and the poetics creations which have love as reference. The article argues that, in order for the universe of birds to become the unexhaustable reserve of metaphors for love and furthermore, for the proximity of both sexes, it's necessary for the doing to become what's said, that it acquires the symbolic competence from which poetry is the refined point.