‘If this is a man’
anyone know what the author is trying to teach us in the concluding scene

each poet admires poetry

they each admire poetry because they could just use an expression or verbally just say you but they both write in in poetry which shows they know how to write in poetry.

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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