I think they saw nature in a spiritual way as the collective "Over-soul" of all the souls that create and reside in every form in creation. That means that very soul is one with and is the Over-soul, which some call God, but Dickinson and Whitman may have thought that word had to much connections to organized religion which has a different definition than they had.
A key concept is an attack that took place. It is developed by providing further explanation of the US Pacific Fleet casualties and the all the warships damaged. and sunk.
Stanza's are the building blocks of formal poetry, like paragraphs in a story or verses in a song.
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I think is the last one.
The last paragraph explains that too many false alarms can be dangerous to one's health, which is important to explain since the rest of the passage seems to promote stress as a way to survive or thrive in moments of crisis.
Hope this helps.
