There's been a Death, in the Opposite House The Home Quotes

Well that's blunt. Everything about this line says distance, from the passive form of "there's been," to the mention of the death as an objective event, to the phrase "opposite house." This death has happened to someone else, somewhere else. Our speaker's interested, but only as a nosy neighbor would be.

You wouldn't think houses would have expressions that give away what happens within them, but the speaker says he knows about the death from one numb look. It's to be understood that "Such Houses" are a class of house with which this speaker has some considerable experience. You mean the ones where someone lies dead inside? Yep, those houses. They "alway" have that numb look.

Let's see if we get this right. There's a window that opens like a pod. Okay, but then it's described as abrupt and mechanical. If you were thinking of a seed pod, you might want to think again. It sounds more like a space pod latch or some other piece of machinery. Maybe this ambiguity—a plant form acting like a machine—is deliberate on Dickinson's part. Maybe it's to suggest a kind of automatism within nature's order?