The phrase "The Windows failed" is figurative. Windows can represent the soul or eyes, and their failure implies that life has come to an end. "I could not see to see," the last line, is incredibly vague. The speaker doesn't receive clarity or revelation at the time of death, which suggests spiritual or existential confusion in addition to literal blindness or the speaker's loss of consciousness.

An unsettling image is introduced when the Fly is characterized as having a "Blue – uncertain – stumbling Buzz." The fly disrupts what's meant to be a holy or spiritual transition because the fly is frequently connected to death and decay. The dying speaker is preoccupied with something common and unsettling rather than seeing God ("the King"). This implies a metaphor for skepticism—the fly might stand for doubt about the afterlife or the letdown of anticipating something significant and getting something insignificant instead.

Dickinson compares the eerie calm "between the Heaves of Storm" to the silence of the deathbed moment using a simile. This implies that death is eerily silent rather than noisy or spectacular, a storm's eye-like symbolic pause in the midst of life's mayhem. It conveys the emotional strain that comes with waiting for something important that hasn't happened yet.