n as it to this child-like state of innocence we return when we find our identity in nature. Ovid originally teaches The Child language and etiquette in Tomis but the death of Ryzak means they are forced out into the barbaric wild in which The Child becomes Ovid's teacher. This really shows that nature is the universal teacher as it is the way that The Child teaches Ovid that allows him to find his identity within nature.
             Malouf juxtaposes the civilisation of Rome with the rural destination of Ovid's banishment in Tomis. This evokes ideas in the reader of good versus evil as well as positive and negative development. In Wordsworth's "The Solitary Reaper" nature is portrayed in a rural setting rather than the wild. It involves a 'solit
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