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The poem is written in the voice of an old woman in a nursing home who is reflecting upon her life. Crabbit is Scots for "bad-tempered" or "grumpy". The poem appeared in the Nursing Mirror in December 1972 without attribution. Phyllis McCormack explained in a letter to the journal that she wrote the poem in 1966 for her hospital newsletter. [4]
For I'm having a wonderful time Chorus 2: I don't want to get well, I don't want to get well, I'm in love with a beautiful nurse. Though the doctor's treatments show results, I always get a bad relapse each time she feels my pulse; I don't want to get well, I don't want to get well, I'm glad they shot me on the fighting line, fine!
[4]: 131 The tone of her poems is "matter of fact" and the grammar marked by "cool clarity". She rarely uses more than a single comparison in a poem, and the economy of her imagery allows her "to exercise the subtle modulations of tone which are her true strength", [4]: 132 with metaphor conveyed through diction. [4]: 133
“That’s me,” I said. “I’m Clancy Martin.” “I don’t want to have to look for you next time,” the nurse said. He was a soft-featured man who looked a bit like Barney, the sympathetic psychiatric nurse from the Hannibal Lecter movies. “I’m sorry.” “I’m just teasing you,” he said. “I know it’s your first day.
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The poem is known as Clare's "last lines" [4] and is his most famous. [5] The poem's title is used for a 2003 collection of Clare's poetry, I Am: The Selected Poetry of John Clare, edited by his biographer Jonathan Bate, [6] and it had previously been included in the 1992 Columbia University Press anthology, The Top 500 Poems. [7]
Crebbin was born in Birstall, Leicestershire, just north of Leicester.She remembered creating poems that her father would type up for her. She trained as a primary school teacher [1] at Dudley Training College and she taught for thirty years.