Interpretation of Sonnet #7 by William Shakespeare.

Today in class we were split into groups and were given the choice of wheather to act out, make a drawing or make music of what we thought this poem meant:

SONNET 7
Lo! in the orient when the gracious light
Lifts up his burning head, each under eye
Doth homage to his new-appearing sight,
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;
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:
So thou, thyself out-going in thy noon,
Unlook'd on diest, unless thou get a son. What I understand from this poem is that when the Sun rises everyone admires it even though it is at it's peak in the middle of the day. But once when the Sun is setting people turn their attention else where. The poet is  making a comparison between youth and old age. In youth you are looked upon and in old age you are 'ignored unless you have a son.