"Pedestrian actions" meaning the futility of ones choosing to end their live. We will l die and the universe will hardly notice a drop in the bucket of consciousness. all yo leave behind in your meat suit to rot. its "nerves, propagating" you are still energetic matter. Your actions do not create the ripple effect you had hoped they would. Suicide is an uninspired act of desperation, according to the speaker.... she is telling this to herself.

The poem is a linear progression recounting the speaker's emotional struggles. It refers to insight she gained when struggling emotionally. She is being encouraged to get out of her head and listen. Listening is healing

"prone" meaning leaning towards

your human voice - the noise we make with our bodies - not so much the context of the words, but the sounds we each make when we speak.

The body is not separate from or lesser than the soul. This is a new idea at the time. Whitman is calling for humanity to celebrate the body as it has elevated the soul to majesty.

Milton was not only working for the people but with the people, performing the lowliest duties for the greater good. in this poem Wordsworth makes a saint of a man.

This is a poem of reverence to the public servant, philosopher, and interpreter of the divine he feels England needs.

SO many colon's and semi colon's. Wordsworth left nothing metrical up to the reader. It is extraordinarily measured, albeit impassioned .

Heart being a feminine subject - meaning emotion, representing generosity.

This exclamatory remark instantly draws the reader in. We are eves dropping on this impassioned letter addressed to John Milton. We are curious .

The sibilance here adds to the idea of the speakers heightened desire.