There is no doubt that both Ovid, from Imaginary Life, by David Malouf and William Wordsworth eventually come to appreciate their new surroundings. Discuss

ESSAY MUSTAFA KHEIR Consequently, they modify their attitudes towards life in civilized societies. William Wordsworth and Ovid do have their similarities in that they love nature from parallel perspectives. However the approach they use in accepting their new surrounding, nature, is different. There is no doubt that Ovid, a character in David Malouf"s book "An Imaginary Life" does accept and appreciate nature, the main catalyst for this transition is the wild child who allows …

…to return to nature and when he was able to return to nature he was able to look back to city life and explain how much he loathed it. By looking at David Malouf's "An Imaginary Life" and William Wordworth's poems "The Prelude", "Tinten Abbey" and the "Solitary Reaper" it can be seen that both Ovid and William Wordsworth learn to appreciate their new surroundings and are able to re assess life in civilized societies.