Theme in Yellow Man and the Natural World Quotes

The speaker is doing the "spotting" with himself. So right from the get-go, we see man and nature as one, since people don't usually look like "yellow balls."

Man's made a habit of naming the things he sees in nature. So our punch line here is even better, because it's man naming nature as something natural.

Since the pumpkin also happens to be a poet, we get this neat description of nature with all the amped up effects that vivid imagery can offer. So nature is describing itself with the benefits of having a poet's language.