What is the theme of "elegy written in a country churchyard"?

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The main themes in "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" are the universality of death, social class and value, and poetry and posterity. The universality of death: Gray's poem depicts death as a leveling force that brings all people, whether rich or poor, to the same final fate.

the word that best matches the meaning of the expression "went to the big ocean" is died.

the goldfish died, which is why the father looks at the children mournfully. the "big ocean" is the father's way of saying fish heaven. he could have just said that the goldfish died, but this way, the children imagine the fish in a bigger, better place instead of just picturing a dead fish.

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