I think this poem is comparing the sun with us human. It said
"Lo!in the orient when the gracious light
Lifts up his burning head, each under eye
Doth homage to his new-appearing sight,"
This can be when the sun rises and everyone wakes up to see the sky.Compare to us it is when we were born and everyone pays attention to the new baby.
"Serving with looks his sacred majesty;
And having climb'd the steep-up heavenly hill,
Resembling strong youth in his middle age,
yet mortal looks adore his beauty still,
Attending on his golden pilgrimage;"
This is when the sun rises to its middle and it is midday,but everyone stills pay attention to you.To us it can be that we have used up have our life time, but we still have people who enjoys being with us.
"But when from highmost pitch, with weary car,
Like feeble age, he reeleth from the day,
The eyes, 'fore duteous, now converted are
From his low tract and look another way:"
This is when the sun is setting and the people that was watching it turns away. For us it can be when we die and everyone is saying goodbye.
"So thou, thyself out-going in thy noon,
Unlook'd on diest, unless thou get a son."
This can mean that the sun is gone and everyone forgets about unless it comes again. For us is when we're dead and forgotten unless we have someone to pass on to.
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Ni, well done today in class. I'm glad that you are willing to take educational risks and share your thinking even when it isn't what everyone is thinking. Well done. Keep exploring what you discussed in class. Write down your thoughts and then use the sonnet as support. In this blog you did it the other way around.
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