A "homestead" is a "home place," a house. In the phrase ''The graves stood'' Shakespeare is casting the grave as a house. The expression is exactly the same as if one now said, "the house stood (empty." The identical idea. | A "homestead" is a "home place," a house. In the phrase ''The graves stood'' Shakespeare is casting the grave as a house. The expression is exactly the same as if one now said, "the house stood (empty." The identical idea. |