Dickinson's Poem #465: Buzzing Bye

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Perhaps she has not succeeded in gaining final closure.
There comes a time in life when it is necessary to conclude that the focus of existence is complete and decide what to do with the times that follow. The speaker considers the time following this conclusion a period for closure while waiting for her death to arrive. In lines 2-4: “The Stillness in the Room Was like the Stillness in the Air-Between the Heaves of Storm-” Dickinson is using the metaphor of time between storms. The storm of life represents the trails of the speaker’s physical known surroundings and the storm of death represents the unknown trials of dying. The speaker has made it through life; now she’s in the erie stillness between the storms. The period between can create a feeling of rest, but at the same time, may create anticipation for the next spell. By closing off her world, the speaker demonstrates the anticipation of her death.
The time of ultimate closure is when the soul leaves the body ...

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