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The Heart Of A Heart: The Beauty Of The Heart

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In our search for knowledge our world is filled with constant shifts and changes, and the beauty of itself is often left in silence while we’re engulfed with constant experiences. This essay from the London Review of Books explores such beauty through the existence of a heartbeat. The essay is written from the experiences of a doctor towards a general audience who may not understand scientific jargon by embedding imagery alongside his own experiences, and explores his enlightenment of the beauty within hearing the heartbeat of others.
This essay is written in first person in the perspective of the author through the usage of personal pronouns within the text such as “I”. This is used to bring about a sense of intimacy to the audience with the author, and distinguishes itself from a regular essay as the author attempts to …show more content…

“Healthy cardiac valves close with a soft percussive noise, like a gloved finger tapping on a leather-topped desk”. The usage of musical jargon is followed by the use of simile within the text to illustrate this. The example here is used to reveal movement, and its links to the beauty of the heart. Movement is constantly revealed throughout this, when the author alludes to the fact that the movement within the heart resembles a child. “… Murmurs that can be high-pitched or low, loud or soft…”. The word murmur presents a vocal direction when personified represents the murmur of a child as the murmurs of children contain similar qualities as in the example. The example of a new born child is again used by the author, to describe the beauty and distinctiveness of the heartbeat. “The foetal heartbeat was distinct, fluttering fast like a bird over the oceanic swell of the mother’s pulse, an allegro played over an adagio”. The author here uses vivid imagery, accompanied by a simile to reveal the beauty within a

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