He felt refreshed and excited by the sound of nature, and he was "learning" the language of the mother earth. During his nature-language learning, he descovered the meaning of red is more than "stop", or the meaning of green is more than "go". (143) The red and green refers to the traffic lights, for which a city person would see everyday. They symbolized the uninteresting daily life of an average person.

The language of nature triggered such a strong emotion within the poet that he felt like English is not important compared to the language of nature. This reinforced his negative emotion towards his life.

The poet personalized the environments around him. The sounds of the nature was a rhythm to the poet. This shows how much the poet enjoys the nature.

The interesting thing about the poem is that the poet is not sick of English. In fact, the poet was so into English that he called himself a Angloholic.

I think the motivation of the poet to write such a poem is to get out of his busy English-speaking life and embrace the nature.