Tom Sawyer and Sublime Nature

As we read Tom Sawyer we, who have read British Literature, love for the sublime of the romantics, echoed in Twain's writing. Unfortunately the sublime has not quit the effect yet that is always does in those poems. The sublime appears a few times, or has so far. So far Twain seems to stress that sublime does exist but in this story the nature tends to bend towards pastoral. As I am typing and thinking i realize that so far the interactions that are nearly sublime all deal with humans. The murder scene clearly sticks out in these examples. And it makes me think if Twain is trying to say something about the way that humans deal with nature and their affect on it. Right now I am leaning towards the fact that it is only through the eyes of the beholder whether nature is sublime or pastoral. And especially when humans interact in a sublime nature in nature, if that make sense. Basically it is humans and their interactions in nature that define the scene as pastoral or sublime.