Shakespeare Sonnet 7 shown through performance. Practice makes perfect!

If you've read my previous post, you will know that recently in my humanities class, we have been discussing Shakespeare Sonnet 7. (If you're not familiar with this poem, it was written in the previous post.) Today we did more on this poem and the art group presented their piece, the actors performed again and so did the musicians. During class, we spent some time talking about the differences between all of our pieces and the similarities. I think that genuinely, we all had the same idea. The artists drew a picture of the suns progress through the sky from rising to setting and a group of people watching. The actors made a skit about the life of the sun and how it is similar to a humans and the musicians showed the power point of the sun and its progress through the sky. Basically, we all had the same idea that the poem was talking about the sun. I still believe that it is talking about the sun and haven't changed my opinion based on people's performances today and I don't still think this because other people do too, I think this because it makes sense to me through my own understanding. I almost 100% understand this poem now but there are a few words still that I'm unfamiliar with because they aren't used nowadays.

I think that a way to improve our musical performance would be to relate more to the poem and maybe stop making inferences about the poem. Other than that, I honestly like what we did because for me, since I'm not very musical, it was hard to show an audience something through music and not being able to use words.

A big question I have is: Why did Shakespeare choose to write about the sun in the first place?

In conclusion, I am happy with my opinion and fully understand the poem which is good because when I first read it, I couldn't make head or tails of it. I think that discussing the poem really helped me understand more of it.