 Antal captures this idea well when she says "The Lilly, is the most spiritual showing that 'however subject the natural body might be to force and threats, man's spiritual body, like the Lilly, could never be essentially debased'".The idea of Purity in the poem also trickles into the other theme of Ideal Love.The Ideal Love is often the purest form of love in that the love is pure because it is pure love; there is no game, or flaws to it.