Also, his stylistic and direct way of choosing a word in contrasting the size of heart to its speediness further magnifies his point and emotionally appeals the readers of the beauty of the flourishing life of hummingbirds which is later described as “incredible enormous immense ferocious metabolisms.”Īfter Doyle describes how fast hummingbird’s heart is, he starts to illustrate the pain of hummingbird’s way of spending life and makes connections to other creatures way of spending their life, too. By stating the numerical data and using vivid sensory languages with direct reference to a human body that creates a concrete image of incredibly fast-paced animals, his quotes not only helps to emphasize his main point of hummingbird’s heart but also help readers to get a complete understanding of the nature of hummingbird’s heart. In the first paragraph, he starts to illustrate the hummingbird’s heart by stating “hummingbird’s heart beats ten times a second” and “their hearts hammering faster than we could clearly hear if we pressed our elephantine ears to their infinitesimal chests”. In doing so, he sincerely and skillfully points out that we all have the common nature of emotion no matter how they are different.Īt the beginning of the essay, the author Doyle states the various features to characterize Hummingbird, which helps him to illustrate one specific type of heart, the mad heart. In this short essay, the author characterizes heart, which is the organ used for blood circulation and maintenance of our life, as our complex emotion that we all have. “Joyas Voladores,” flying jewels, is the essay finely crafted by Brian Doyle who is now an editor of the University of Portland’s Portland Magazine.
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