The cherry tree benefits the poet, bees, crickets, and moon-moth. The poem is about a cherry tree and how the poet adored it at every stage of its development. The sight of the cherry tree elevated and mesmerized him. He described each stage of growth from a tiny seed to a beautiful flowering tree. In conclusion, the cherry tree was important to the poet because he loved it and wanted to show this love. The poet was probably a male since the female moth eats the fruit but any species of insect or animal could have been the beneficiary.