Never thought about THAT… Sonnet 7 extended thinking…

Shakespeare Sonnet 7, what is it trying to convey? I think the sun rising… actually that’s what everyone in my class thought after the performances we had (our class of 20 was divided into 3 groups, one group had to do a musical performance, the other an acting and the last an art exhibit). But today was an extension to the bigger picture, which in this case was the sun. The representation of what the actors did painted a bigger picture in my mind. They showed the connection between the sun rising and setting and human life and death. The Egyptians thought that the sun died when it set in the west, humans of course die when their time comes. That really fascinated me how 2 totally random things can be connected in such a meaningful way. We also talked about how people in the olden days looked away from the sun when setting, connecting that to human life, senior citizens aren’t noticed and younger people find them weird and not “cool” in a way that is looking away and facing away from them. Interesting how we start with something and end up with something quite the opposite, and if we look back at how we started we realize how far we have come, just like a journey, perhaps of life and death.