Topic > Analysis of Fireflies in the Garden by Robert Frost

The theme of vanity is well represented in lines 18-21 ("Spend your time sitting in a circle with your friends / Pontificating on each other / Always competing for that one moment of self-aggrandizing glory / In which you hold the intellectual spotlight”). -elation. Another example is line 43 (“I spend hours in front of the mirror, combing my elegantly disheveled hair”). This line is an example of fiction. when in reality he did it manually by trying to create a perception; he is trying to be something he is not in order to gain some social reward, such as popularity or a larger network of friends. He says most of the verses in a mocking tone, pretending to be the tall and powerful person described in the song. All together, these elements combine to convey the same themes present in Frost