Thomas Gray: Poems

Do you think there is any type of transgressive element/aspect being shown throughout the poem "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"?

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I suppose the speaker challenges the idea of avoiding talking about death. The narrator accepts the inevitability of death and the impermanence of life. I don't think these ideas were always talked about at the time.