Mockingjay story i need help​

Nthis poem by ruskin bond, what does the use of the word heart-beats suggest about the narrator's attitude toward life?

How can you paraphrase this, this is about golden age fallacies.these are all rational people who know that older is not necessarily better, but many are taken in by this fallacy and seem no longer able to reason with any degree of reliability

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