At the end of this stanza the man realizes that death is not a release of pain; rather it means non-existence, the inability to hear and feel the birds song. .
In stanza seven his perception of the bird is immortal. Yet we both know the bird is no such thing but what he actually means is that this song will be continued by another nightingale, for this bird is a symbol of nature. It shows the joy in life. At the end of this stanza the man speaks of three images, the emperor and clown, the story of Ruth, and the "charm's magic casements" (Pg. 607) these images hint at the pain the man recognized in the beginning of the poem, the ones he is trying to escape.
In the final stanza the man returns to reality and the nightingale is no longer a symbol it is an ordinary bird and it flies to another spot to perch and sing. This leaves the man wondering whether he has had a true insight or vision or was he just daydreaming.
In conclusion I feel that the theme portrays the poem rather well. Basically without the wine the man did not portray the world as a beautiful place nor a place he wanted to be. He felt that the wine helped him escape his troubled thoughts.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez "Death Constant Beyond Love".
The theme portrayed in " Death Constant Beyond Love" is about a man fighting his death in solitude, while also seeking love. Senator Onesimo Sanchez finds out that he only has "six months and eleven days to live", but when he finds out he chooses not to tell anyone and experience it on his own. He portrays himself the same way before he found out about his illness, preaching and filling everyone's head with great things to come. He sells himself for everyone saw on the outside, but what everyone didn't know that on the inside he was withering away. Senator Sanchez spent his entire life in a lie, even when he found what he claimed the first true thing that mattered to him, Laura, he still could not be spared the inevitable.
