In the essay Joyas Volardores, Brian Doyle, the author, uses choice words and phrases to provoke emotion and discuss the sensitivity of the heart. With the use of short and punctual sentences, Doyle compels the reader to quickly read and perceive sentimental conveyances. An example of this style would be when Doyle says the heart can come down "in an instant, felled by a woman's second glance, a child's apple breath, the shatter of glass in the road, the words I have something to tell you, a cat with a broken spine dragging itself into the forest to die" (Doyle 66). The Author combines these sentence fragments with touching and empathetic facts about the humming bird and blue whale to further the vulnerability of the reader.  In the sentence "The price of their ambition is a life closer to death; they suffer more heart attacks and aneurysms and ruptures than any other living creature" (Doyle 65) and the quote"of the largest animal who ever lived we know nearly nothing. But we know this:" their penetrating moaning cries, their piercing yearning tongue, can be heard underwater for miles and miles" (Doyle 66) additional meaning is assigned to the fragility of the heart and its eluding mysteries.

Doyle states in the beginning of the essay to "Consider the hummingbird for a long moment" as if to tell the readers to put all thoughts aside and immerse themselves in what he has to say. The facts that state how the "hummingbird's heart is the size of a pencil eraser"(Doyle 64) and "is a lot of the hummingbird"(Doyle 64) are fascinating and push the reader into a tender sympathetic state. The author's use of these facts paints a great contrast between the beautiful hardworking avian and human beings while slowly allowing the reader to develop compassion for the hummingbird. This quote in particular where Doyle says "Each one visits a thousand flowers a day. They can dive at sixty miles an hour. They can fly backwards. They can fly more than five hundred miles without pausing to rest"(Doyle 65) must make those of compassion aw and open the eyes of those who are lethargic and uninspired.

The mood of this text is driven by sensitive truths and ideas. Doyle writes that there is "So much held in a heart in a lifetime. So much held in a heart in a day, an hour, a moment"(Doyle 66) to advocate the importance of small increments in time and that they should be cherished. In several parts of the essay the author touches on how moments in time are overlooked and that the heart is sensitive to fond and often forgotten memories. Seemingly small gestures such as "the brush of your mother's papery ancient hand in the thicket of your hair"(Doyle 66) or "the memory of your father's voice early in the morning echoing from the kitchen where he is making pancakes for his children"(Doyle 66) are relatable memories for most readers and make the heart vulnerable. The author's use of consecutive sentimental mindscapes effectively implements feelings of nostalgia in the reader and opens them up for further sensitive topics.

According to Doyle, "We open windows to each but we live alone in the house of the heart"(Doyle 66) which is interesting for its relevance to the structure of the essay. Throughout the essay the author slowly opens the windows of our hearts to eventually best our emotional constraint. The beginning of the essay is light with cute and heart-tugging humming bird texts, for example, "Consider for a moment those hummingbirds who did not open their eyes again today"(Doyle 65) that prime the windows of readers for the next slightly-more emotional instance. In a later paragraph Doyle begins his descent into grim and irrefutable text that further the vulnerability of the readers. The author claims "We are utterly open with no one in the end -- not mother and father, not wife or husband, not lover, not child, not friend" which does not correlate with the positive sorrow left in the wake of nostalgia that he created. The jarring and apparently true tragedy of being with no one in the end is not what an emotionally vulnerable reader would prefer to hear. At this point in the essay, Doyle has the readers' windows open enough to receive a bombardment of overwhelming emotion provoking phrases such as "When young we think there will come one person who will savor and sustain us always; when we are older we know this is the dream of a child, that all hearts finally are bruised and scarred, scored and torn, repaired by time and will, patched by force of character, yet fragile and rickety forevermore"(Doyle 66) and the idea that "You can brick up your heart as stout and tight and hard and cold and impregnable as you possibly can and down it comes in an instant"(Doyle 66) as a result of hearing your father's voice or feeling your mother's hand in your hair.

Joyas Volardores inspires readers to become conscious of their sentiments and vulnerability. Throughout the essay, ideas and phrases provoke emotion and reveal the true tragedies perceivable by human hearts. Doyle's use of imagery captures the attention of the reader while heightening their vulnerability with topics that are not so pleasant to discuss. The essay persistently tugs at the reader's emotions and immerses them in the complex workings of the human heart. 

