Joyas Volarados Essay

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“Joyas Voladaros” “Joyas Voladoras” is a little unique essay written by Brian Doyle in Autumn 2004. Doyle now currently is an editor for the University of Portland’s Portland Magazine, Atlantic Monthly. Born in New York City, Doyle is the author of 13 books including novels such as Credo and Two Voices. This essay consists of two pages and on those two pages Doyle has completely captured the readers with reality of human heart and the frustration of love. From the start of the essay, we could already slightly imagine that this doesn’t really looks like an essay instead it looks more like a poem. From the first sentence onwards, “ Consider the hummingbird for a long moment”. With all my experience with essays, I have barely come across such a start like this so this was a new different start for me. We could already assume from the first start that the writer wants us to read the essay slowly word by word to really capture what’s going on throughout the piece of writing. Going back to the title, Joyas Voladoras could be identified as the name given to the humming bird by the first explorers in America. After Doyle’s brief descriptions about the humming bird, he suddenly changes the whole impact of the poem when he comes up with “ Every creature on earth has approximately two billion heartbeats to spend in a lifetime.” As a reader, we could already interpret that the essay is not going to be about a humming bird as he also starts talking about the blue whale. Doyle’s use of animals shifts the reader’s mindset as it has been drawing us to the real reality of the human heart. I really consider this essay to be a meditation due to the fact that how this essay could be slowly read and interpret like a poem. Besides that, this essay meditates on emotional exposure as a conjunction between power and fragility. For example, in paragraph 6, “ all hearts finally are
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