Although single parenthood is on the rise in today's homes, children often still play a fatherly role in their lives. It doesn't matter who plays the role: a father, an uncle, an older brother, a grandfather, etc...; in almost all cases, relationships between father (figure) and son have a lasting impact on young people for the rest of their lives. In "I Wanted to Share My Father's World," Jimmy Carter tells the audience, no matter the situation with a father, to hold on to every moment. When Carter opens the poem, he talks about how at this point in his life, he still has this essential element of wanting the things his father introduced to him growing up. Early on, he expresses that he has this “…pain [that] he mostly hides, / But [that] ties of blood, or seed, endure” (lines 1-2). These lines express how much she longs for her father and how painful it is without him by her side. Furthermore, he still feels “the hunger for his outstretched hand” (4) and for the embrace of a man who welcomes him” (5). Furthermore, Carter explains how this “pain” that he “feel[s] inside” (3) is also due to his “just needing a word of encouragement”....