An Imaginary Life

I see An Imaginary Life as pertaining to the overall theme of our class, the idea of all that is past possesses the present. However it is a little different. Those texts we used to connect a past to our own present. An Imaginary Life seems to connect the past with an even further past. That is, it connects humanity with the nature that we seem to have forgotten. Even Ovid, who we seem to see as a man of a far distant and ignorant past can look even further back to see a time when the world was not as civilized as that he was used to in Rome and then again even farther back to a time when we lived among the wild animals of the world, when nature was as much of a master over us as we have, even in Ovid's time, become over it. Ovid is able to witness an unadulterated connection to the natural world in the child he meets in exile, and it is this I would argue that helps him connect to the world and realize that all that is past possesses the present.