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Analysis: The Unbearable Lightness Of Being Yuppie

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Airiness in this Burdened World “The Unbearable Lightness of Being Yuppie” exhibits a character of an environmentalist which signifies the human person. We are eager to save the nature yet we unconsciously do things that harm her. Our time has always been consumed by those material things revolving around us and it is proven in the line “down came his Toyota Prius and his iPod, down too his laptop and his Blackberry…” It uses the third person as its speaker and has a serious tone towards the main character—the environmentalist. He or she describes facts or information according to, maybe, what he or she is seeing. The poem also presents a nostalgic feeling given the fact that there are images suggesting what his surroundings look like before—as
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