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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The poet is referring to graves. The heaves of turf describe the rolling or swelling of the earth.

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Elegy Written in a Country Courtyard