At first I thought this was talking about a king, then the sun and back to the king. It gives off the impression of it being a king many times with out stating it. When it says that he attends on his Golden Pilgrimage and unlooked on diest unless thou get a son. Kings tend to be rich and they tend to want sons (no offence to a king if he reads this). This is what I think happens in the poem, the king has climbed up a steep heavenly hill to look at the rising sun. It then implies that the king is strong, even though he is middle-aged but normal people still adore his beauty. But when he is at a feeble/old age, he dies, or reels from the day. I don't know what the next few lines mean but the last line could mean that before he did die he would have to have a son which he didn't. Maybe it was through some sense of pride that made him want a son, not a daughter.
This is my interpretation of sonnet 7... for now.
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2 comments:
I think that as you wrote you maybe got more into it, and knew what you understood & didnt. I was also confused about whether it was a king or the sun, I think other people were too. I think you have some good thoughts. Just don't try to do it sentence by sentence, but I think that you really put some thought into what you wrote.
Laura :P
I dissagree with your thinking. Because you said at first the poem's talking about the king. But on the second line, it says the subject (he) lift up his burning head. would a king have that?
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