The ancient poet drew from a wide range of semantic fields in the images used to indicate aspects of the male's or female's body, behaviour, and attractiveness. Some of those fields are patently neutral with respect to gender. Images drawn from the world of food, for example, betoken no special nuances for understanding gender. The nourishing sweet aspects of pomegranates or nectar, of honey or milk (5:6, 18, 20) are not related to any inherently gendered qualities. Floral images are likewise apparently neutral.