Many believed that the bottom section, which has been preserved, depicted profane love, while the missing upper part depicted divine love.

But it is entirely characteristic of Williams, whose head was always buzzing with Dante, and with the dangerous borderlines between sacred and profane love, that he should have read The Allegory in that way.

With her foot she checks Cupid, the god of profane love while two-faced Deceit cowers at her side.

In poems lyrical and expert (she wrote in all the verse forms of her day), her metaphysical poetry drew on science and technology, religion and ethics, custom and habit, sacred and profane love.

The story centers on the struggle between sacred and profane love, and redemption through love, a theme running through most of Wagner's mature work.

On whether to regard the equation of profane love with divine as parody or paradox, Guillory writes that "the easy translation of parody into paradox is occasioned by Brooks's interest".

The story is about the struggle between sacred love and profane love, and redemption (salvation) through love.

While the others sing of chaste and pure love, Tannhäuser sings of profane love.

I notice that a very large portion of your literature is concerned with what you call 'love', 'profane love' mostly.

He also touched on lesbianism, sacred and profane love, metamorphosis, melancholy, the corruption of the city, lost innocence, the oppressiveness of living, and wine.