I Wanted To Share My Father's World Poem Analysis
In today’s world, children need a father figure of some type. Whether this father figure is a brother, uncle, grandfather or friend, the impact of a father has a lasting impression on children. The impression a father lives on a child will have an effect on them for the remainder of their live. In Jimmy Carter’s poem, “I Wanted to Share My Father’s World”, he reveals how every moment with a father, regardless of the situation, should be cherished.
In the poem, Jimmy Carter, tells how he still longs for the things his father gave him while he was growing up. Carter shares in his poem the “…pain [he] mostly hide[s], / but [that] ties of blood, or seed, endure” (1-2). The lines tell the audience how he longs for his father and how sad it is that he does not have his father as his father has deceased. Carter tells how the hurt and “pain” he “feel[s] inside” are due to wanting to hear “a word of praise” (3, 6). He also still has “the hunger for his outstretched hand” and a man’s embrace to take {him} in”(4, 5) . …show more content…
As Carter tells, “I despised the discipline / he used to shape what I should be, / not owning up that he might feel / his own pain when he punished me” (7-10). While Carter felt the physical pain of the discipline, his father felt the emotional pain of the punishment.
When a child is disciplined he carries resentments into adulthood that he will later learn will be set aside. Carter expresses,
“I never put aside / the past resentments of the boy / until, with my own sons, I shared / his final hours, and came to see / what he’d become, or always was-- / the father who will never cease to be / alive in me”
In the poem, Jimmy Carter, tells how he still longs for the things his father gave him while he was growing up. Carter shares in his poem the “…pain [he] mostly hide[s], / but [that] ties of blood, or seed, endure” (1-2). The lines tell the audience how he longs for his father and how sad it is that he does not have his father as his father has deceased. Carter tells how the hurt and “pain” he “feel[s] inside” are due to wanting to hear “a word of praise” (3, 6). He also still has “the hunger for his outstretched hand” and a man’s embrace to take {him} in”(4, 5) . …show more content…
As Carter tells, “I despised the discipline / he used to shape what I should be, / not owning up that he might feel / his own pain when he punished me” (7-10). While Carter felt the physical pain of the discipline, his father felt the emotional pain of the punishment.
When a child is disciplined he carries resentments into adulthood that he will later learn will be set aside. Carter expresses,
“I never put aside / the past resentments of the boy / until, with my own sons, I shared / his final hours, and came to see / what he’d become, or always was-- / the father who will never cease to be / alive in me”