Pyramus+Thisbe/Darkness&Death

2.) In what ways do the story's closing lines (165-66) aptly conclude the darkness/death imagery which Ovid has developed throughout the narrative?

The last two lines just about capture both meanings, with the "color in pOmO..Ater," and the "urnA". Both the death of Pyramus and Thisbe as well as the transformation of the once light fruit to a deep, dark color are concluded.
Throughout the poem you see references to darkness and light, and life and death, both sets being related. As said in class, it seems as though Ovid is balancing. The real deep meanings of dark/light don't really appear until line 81, when they're starting to plan their escape. "Postera nocturnOs AurOra remOverat ignEs," there is an evident balance between the personified 'Dawn' and the 'nocturnal fires' (stars). Dawn obviously being the light and stars being the night/dark reference. This whole chunk of poem is a narrative balancing night and light saying the dawn removed the stars, the sun dried the grass, lots of references towards daytime. And not so much coincidentally they haven't decided to run away yet. But then they do plan it, in the "nocte silentI" they are going to decieve their parents. Not a good thing. They are in their boundaries and safe during the day, but once night comes, they are going to leave the safety into the darkness. Also, him talking about morning/light first then going on to talk about night/dark is him balancing. And not only are they going out into the unsafe darkness, they are meeting at "busta NinI..sub umbrA arboris"! Big flashing light of death AND darkness!! Ovid clearly does this on purpose. He balances life with death and light with darkness as well as safety with wilderness throughout the whole poem, each of which they bubble down to the simple life and death balance. And then, after repeatedly talking about the shade and the fruit's darkness and all the bad dark stuff that comes with night, Pyramus and Thisbe kill themselves, both ending up lying in the tree's dark shadow. And Ovid aptly concludes the darkness of the fruit and the death of the lovers with the summed up explanation of "nam color in pOmO est, ubi permAtUruit, Ater, quodque rogIs superest, UnA requiEscit in urnA." They have died, and with their bloody deaths, (also not a coincidence that it's when it matures and there have been many,many,many double meanings of words with fertility/unproductivity), the fruits start off white(light/life) and end up a deep purple/maroon(darkness/death). Nothing in this poem is a coincidence.