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Upon Receiving My Inheritance By William Fargason Essay

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In his literary piece “Upon Receiving My Inheritance,” William Fargason briefly illustrates his agonizing physical and emotional experience on possessing a certain disease—chronic arthritis—while also accepting the possibility of the disease’s constant intensification. Despite emanating his trenchant misery, William also expresses humility and gratitude. William presents the physical torment in his sickness. In the first part of the poem, he states, “some days I can’t sit up without crying” (6). In the middle part of the poem, William states “my heart has a tattoo of a heart with barbed wire wrapped around it,” (20) expressing emotional pain as well. In the latter parts of the poem he states, “if my bones fuse, I will be like a tree” (27)

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