No Doctor's Today, Thank You
No Doctor's Today, Thank You - meaning Summary
A Buoyant Boastful Mood
Ogden Nash’s poem is a jaunty, self-mocking celebration of a temporary, overblown good mood. The speaker brags about superhuman agility, appetite, and talents with comic exaggeration and playful wordplay. Boasts slide into absurdity—taming caribou, writing memoirs, mixing up words—so the poem reads as affectionate parody of youthful vanity. Its tone is light, whimsical, and ultimately humble: the narrator insists he is merely "a little euphorious."
Read Complete AnalysesThey tell me that euphoria is the feeling of feeling wonderful, well, today I feel euphorian, Today I have the agility of a Greek god and the appetitite of a Victorian. Yes, today I may even go forth without my galoshes, Today I am a swashbuckler, would anybody like me to buckle any swashes? This is my euphorian day, I will ring welkins and before anybody answers I will run away. I will tame me a caribou And bedeck it with marabou. I will pen me my memoirs. Ah youth, youth! What euphorian days them was! I wasn't much of a hand for the boudoirs, I was generally to be found where the food was. Does anybody want any flotsam? I've gotsam. Does anybody want any jetsam? I can getsam. I can play chopsticks on the Wurlitzer, I can speak Portuguese like a Berlitzer. I can don or doff my shoes without tying or untying the laces because I am wearing moccasins, And I practically know the difference between serums and antitoccasins. Kind people, don't think me purse-proud, don't set me down as vainglorious, I'm just a little euphorious.
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