Ovid’s desire to see himself as a part of the natural world conflicts with his desire to maintain his individualistic sense of self. This not only represents a conflict between two perspectives, but between the languages that form those perspectives. Latin, as a language that distinguishes and categorizes things, encourages Ovid to view himself as utterly distinct from the world. The Child’s natural language, by contrast, encourages the view that everything in the world is a unified whole, indistinguishable from one another.