Ode to a Large Tuna in a Market

What is the water death that Neruda mentions in the last line of the poem?

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In the last line, the Tuna, surrounded by vegetables, resembles an enormous, streamlined, and shining ship—still perfect and dignified but now sailing through the mysterious territory of death rather than that of the ocean.

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