I Wanted to Share My Father’s World, written by James Earl Carter who was mainly known as Jimmy Carter, born in a small town in Plains, Georgia in 1924. Jimmy Carter, the only Georgian elected president of the United States, held the office for one term in 1977-81.His previous public service included a stint in the U.S Navy, two senate terms in the Georgia General Assembly, and one as governor of Georgia (1971-75). In his post presidential careers, Carter wrote numerous books, including one whom he wrote with his wife, Rosalynn, and a children’s book (illustrated by his daughter, Amy). Jimmy Carter’s poem “I Wanted to Share My Father’s World” focuses on a young man realizing that his relationship with his father was tainted because of his immature ways as a child. The young boy found it difficult at times to bond with his father. He wondered what it would feel like to be genuinely loved by his father, he was affected by the lack of emotion that his father showed him, and at a young age noticed that his father was trying to mold him into everything that he wasn’t. The poem starts off with a young man expressing an auditory imagery of the pain he endured from the lost of his father, The man speaks about the pain as if he is use to it,” This is a …show more content…
It wasn’t very often that the boy found himself enjoying his father’s company, but when the uncommon moments took place the boy embraced every second of fondness that rarely took place in there difficult relationship. At those rare moments again, the boy felt as if their relationship was clean and wholesome, he believed that the joy that came across him was real genuine, and within those rare moments he felt that their relationship