American literature
"Elegy Written in a Country Courtyard"
In the fourth stanza what are the "heaves of turf in many a moldering heap"?

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In the fourth stanza what are the "heaves of turf in many a moldering heap"?
The poet is referring to graves. The heaves of turf describe the rolling or swelling of the earth.
Elegy Written in a Country Courtyard