poor Yorick
Jester long dead
Poor Yorick is an allusion to Shakespeare's *Hamlet*, where the prince holds the skull of a court jester he knew as a child and muses on mortality: "Alas, poor Yorick!
I knew him, Horatio." The phrase invokes melancholy reflection on death and the transience of life, often used with ironic detachment: Poor Yorick—he never did finish that novel.
- skullHead's bone casing
- jesterRoyal household comedian
- graveSerious and worrying
- gravediggerOne who digs burial plots
- alasExpression of regret
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