Dickinson stated that she heard a fly buzz, then it appears to be a brief pause and she stated “when I died”. This is important because it sets the tone for what she wants the reader to know about her setting. It places emphasis on the fact that dying is an experience as well as living. The fact that she stated “when I died” allows us to ponder on whether there is life after death since she seems to be speaking from the other side. Most often death is sullen but in this poem we don’t get that sentiment because she is focusing on something that is typically so trivial, but in this context so significant. The fly buzzing interrupted “the stillness in the room” that everyone was experiencing as they simultaneously were waiting to experience the author passing away as she mentioned that they had basically passed the point of crying and were waiting for the last stage of their experience which was indicated as she mentioned that there was a “stumbling buzz between the light and me”. She was trying to focus on crossing over to the other side when the buzzing fly ‘interrupted’. The windows she spoke of I assume were her eyes and/or her ability to see the present moment as she ultimately died and the buzzing fly was at that moment no more of importance as she closes her final moment in her living body.