“Joyas Volodoras” is a poetic essay written by Brian Doyle. In this essay, he first mentions about different creatures and their hearts: hummingbirds, their amazing features including torpor, and them having very little emotions, blue whales, their “yearning cries,” them being very emotional, and always longing for something, even when they have a mate. Then he talks about how the heart is vulnerable. He says no matter how strongly we try to defend ourselves from emotions, the emotion still breaks the defense. Doyle’s message by in“Joyas Volodoras” is our hearts are fragile literally, and figuratively, and that we should protect them.
Even though hummingbirds can fly at five hundred miles hour, , fly backwards, and