Rather than continue to beat "From Blossoms" to death with a chair, I decided to quit the generic analysis and compare the purpose of the poem with the lyrics to "Something." Aside from the fact that Lee describes death as "that which defines life," both the poem and the lyrics share a very similar meaning. It is "something in the way she moves" that attracts Paul, just as there is something about the beauty of nature that provoked Lee to write about the beauty of a moment. Sometimes the simplest of things, whether it is eating a peach or seeing a woman for the first time, can have a lasting affect on a person.
The most striking similarity between the works appears in the center of the two. Lee describes everything will grow, "from joy to joy to joy, from wing to wing," just as Paul asks the rhetorical question of whether or not his love will grow. The answer to both of their inquiries, whether they were direct of indirect are found at the core of nature. Everything grows, for everything, in the end, must change. As if to further the connection, Paul mentions that he does not want the girl to leave, implying that he wants to live in the joy of this moment. As I mentioned earlier, Lee demonstrated the want to freeze a beautiful moment and live in it forever through his account in "From Blossoms." I am not so sure that The Beatles were referencing the instability of life and the fact that death is the antithesis of life through the lyrics of "Something," but their is a similarity between the two themes nonetheless.
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