Natural entrance
The natural entrance describes the introduction of literary texts in which stereotypical pictorial elements of nature occur. These are not realistic descriptions or personal experiences of nature, but conventionalized topoi such as flowers and scents, trees and birdsong , winter and cold. These elements can be related to the moods and events described in the course of the text.
Occurrence
Nature entrances played an important role, especially in vernacular poetry of the Middle Ages . They can be found in trobadord poetry and in a number of Latin and Middle High German songs in vagante poetry . Trobadors like Bernart de Ventadorn and Marcabru made the natural entrance a generic feature of the medieval love song with their works, as did the minstrels Walther von der Vogelweide and Heinrich von Veldeke .
development
In the midst of his work, Neidhart ironized the ritual of Hohen Minne and criticized their externalization with parodies of courtly values ( physical poetry ). He switched to marking the songs as summer and winter songs by means of suitable natural entrances and developed a new round stanza for the first group.
The natural entrance was later expanded to include multiple stanzas; with Gottfried von Neifen , Tannhäuser and Ulrich von Winterstetten the art of speech and rhyme used in him became independent.
The tradition thus created was continued in the folk song and the romantic lyric poetry linked to it.