Part 1. What happens to the link between the human and the natural in "The Shipwreck" when Thoreau confronts hostile nature, very different from the domesticated one of Concord and Walden Pond? The tranquil view of nature in Concord and Walden Pond makes Thoreau want to immerse himself in nature. This perspective renders nature inspiring, calming, reviving, and fascinating-a view in which Thoreau feels at one with nature. At Walden Pond, he actually integrates himself into nature, separating himself from the accouterments of civilization to find his "roots," so to speak. Walls points out that "Romantic writers fundamentally rejected the mechanistic and soul-deadening rule of science in favor of the integrative power of organic nature," and this is precisely what Thoreau does at Walden Pond (18). Here, the link between the human and the natural is one of mutual accord, since Thoreau sees himself as part of nature, as proceeding from nature, and acknowledges that he is in some ways irrevocably connected with it.
In the face of the shipwreck, however, Thoreau's depiction of the link between the human and the natural changes drastically. Where at
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