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Brian Doyle in the short essay, "Joyas Voladores"(2012), suggests that love is the concept of a vast spectrum of emotions that ultimately unifies all living beings and gives life its valuable meaning; including the inevitable pain that comes at the cost of loving. Doyle supports his notion by illustrating the beauty in different types of love, through the symbolic comparison of different animals. Doyle's purpose is to exhibit his reflective perspective of love in order to intrigue readers into developing an appreciation and acceptance for the vastly differing ways in which people can experience love- and how all of them are equally of value and significant to the meaning of life. Given the ruminative tone used in the essay, Doyle is writing to an audience of dejected individuals who are seeking self-actualization through a new perspective on life.

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Brian Doyle is a well-renowned author who has been praised for his collection of contemporary short essays, “One Long River of Sound: Notes on Wonder” with the leading piece, “Joyas Voladoras” receiving the most praise. Written during his battle with brain cancer, his message is one that reflectively acknowledges the vast amount of ways people experience love throughout life, and is symbolically conveyed through the intricate description of animals and their hearts. Brian’s use of pessimistic diction to talk about such a sentimental concept- compels the reader to infer that this short essay is written by someone who has experienced loss, and embraces this affliction as a natural part of life.

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Doyle’s short essay is one that self-expresses his perspective of the concept of love, and reflects on the different ways people perceive this emotion. His intention is one that is meant to evoke the acceptance of this abstract feeling for his audience, along with the understanding that even though everyone experiences life differently, love is a concept that unifies all living beings- with this notion being conveyed through the comparison of the physical appearance of the smallest birds, to the largest mammals on the planet.

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Doyle's target audience is one of people who may feel pointless or misguided through the pains of living. This is most prominently shown when he describes an animal that is small and most often overlooked (a hummingbird) as a triumphant and fascinatingly resilient creature. This encourages an audience of people who may feel unappreciated and worthless to see their own potential, and to recognise just how brilliant they actually are, even if they're just surviving barely.

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Published in 2012, the essay's time of release concurred with the natural disaster Hurricane Sandy. The tragedy  devastated the lives of millions, and left a population with nothing but the feelings of hopelessness and loss. This piece could have been written in an attempt to communicate with these victims that they are not alone during these difficult times, and that pain is inevitable, and shouldn't discourage people from seeing the beauty in life.

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After being diagnosed with terminal brain cancer, Doyle realised that coming to terms this inevitability meant understanding the value of life. Living is a society where love is promoted as a singular entity that solves all of one's problems- is one of ignorant negligence to the reality of what love really is. In order to appreciate what life is, Doyle had to clarify the duality of love, and how it isn't the solution to life, but instead gives existence meaning.

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throughout "Joyas Voladoras", Doyle conveyed the various ways that love is experienced by individuals through the exemplification and meticulous description of animals. For instance, the use of sensory details to describe the small yet fast paced heartbeat of the hummingbird- a beautiful and small creature, was used to symbolize the overwhelmingly intense love that is often short lived in youth. He then compares the bird to a tortoise, where he uses their differences in speed and lifespan to emphasise the profound variations of love, and that even though they seem extremely different, they are equal in relativity to their value and significance.

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Brian Doyle used hummingbirds at the beginning of his essay to symbolize one of the various types of love that people experience throughout life- one that is characterised as overwhelmingly pleasant but often short-lived due to the substantial amount of energy that's required to maintain it; in which he exhibited through the personification of these small bird’s beautiful but ephemeral lives, describing them,“each the most amazing thing you have never seen, each thunderous wild heart the size of an infant’s fingernail, each mad heart silent, a brilliant music stilled.” The additional use of anaphora when describing the beauty of the hummingbird’s life, along with his application of optimistic diction to portray the inevitable death of the bird conveys Doyle’s appreciation towards the symbolic duality of love that gives life meaning.

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Doyle brilliantly utilised the appeal of logos in order to help support his sentimentally driven short essay; accomplishing this by consistently using detailed facts about animals- often referring to their hearts as the topic of discussion. He makes remarks about impassive information that is seemingly of face value- like how, ”Mammals and birds have hearts with four chambers. Reptiles and turtles have hearts with three chambers. Fish have hearts with two chambers. Insects and mollusks have hearts with one chamber. Worms have hearts with one chamber, although they may have as many as eleven single-chambered hearts. Unicellular bacteria have no hearts at all” his solely factual approach gives the readers a false impression the authors purpose due to the lack of emotional diction, however as the writing continues he then mentions that, “...even they [BACTERIA] have fluid eternally in motion, washing from one side of the cell to the other, swirling and whirling. No living being is without interior liquid motion. We all churn inside” the final sentence in this paragraph reveals to the audience the real intention of the essay through an emotional appeal. It becomes apparent that Doyle selectively used diction that conveyed a feeling of dramatic differences between the animals he described- making bacteria seem insignificant compared to animals like mammals and birds, but then symbolically unifies them under one specific trait- being that ‘we all churn inside’. This metaphor alludes to the various feelings that people experience- with his previous fixation on animal hearts now revealing its symbolic reference to the duality of love that readers can empathise with. By comparing all the different types of animal hearts, Doyle is alluding to the vastly differing ways in which people can experience love- and how all of them are equally of value and significant to the meaning of life.

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Brian Doyle begins his essay by establishing a light-hearted tone through his seemingly impassioned attitude towards hummingbirds, as he uses sight and sound imagery to describe their remarkable capabilities like that there are,” more than three hundred species of them whirring and zooming and nectaring in hummer time zones nine times removed from ours, their hearts hammering faster than we could clearly hear if we pressed our elephantine ears to their infinitesimal chests.” with the playful use of onemonopia setting up his positive tone. He also does this by mentioning their awe-inspiring appearance by mentioning the hummingbird’s flattering past from being originally called, “flying jewels, the first white explorers in the Americas called them” which directly translates to the title of the short essay. The tone quickly shifts in the second paragraph by creating an ominous mood through the grim and detailed observation that “if they are not soon warmed, if they do not soon find that which is sweet, their hearts grow cold, and they cease to be.” referring to the hummingbird’s inevitable death.