Original: One of the most obvious characteristics of his music is the extravagant text setting of words representing extremes of emotion: "love", "pain", "death", "ecstasy", "agony" and other similar words occur frequently in his madrigal texts, most of which he probably wrote himself.
Simplified: The words of his madrigals are often very emotional: they are about "love", "pain", "death", "ecstasy", "agony".