a person's life coming to an end. When the window shuts it cuts off all the light to the person's eyes, and therefore the idea of death is being used. The window in this case may very well not even be a glass window a person would look out, yet instead the lid to the coffin this individual was lying in. Wither or not how Dickinson portrayal of death is realistic or not, she is able to achieve it through the grammatical chooses she makes. By the words she has chosen to use along with the modifiers there is only a couple of different ways to interpret this poem, but the idea of death would have to be in anyone interpretation. This poem made me feel almost a sense of grieving when I closed the books cover to the words....
