Is Beauty In The Eye Of The Beholder?

Keeping in mind your discussion from the classroom, watch this video.


Does it affirm your opinion about beauty? Has it changed your mind at all? Discuss the video and questions with your partner.


Now think of something (a song, a place, a person, etc.) that you find beautiful. Go to your own blog and write a post about your "beautiful thing". Write about what you find beautiful about this thing, and include a prediction about whether or not you think others will find your thing beautiful.


Your homework is to comment on at least one other person's blog post. Mention whether or not you agree that their thing is beautiful, and why you do or don't agree.


Here are some things I find beautiful to help get you started.

Paul Gauguin - Mohana no Atua

Frank Ocean - Thinking About You

William Shakespeare - Sonnet #130

          My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;

          Coral is far more red than her lips' red;

          If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;

          If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.

          I have seen roses damask'd, red and white,

          But no such roses see I in her cheeks; 

          And in some perfumes is there more delight

          Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.

          I love to hear her speak, yet well I know

          That music hath a far more pleasing sound;

          I grant I never saw a goddess go;

          My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground:

               And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare

               As any she belied with false compare.