Entering the Realm of Beauty

A couple of times I have said oh that is beautiful, or she is so beautiful, so I can say I am very much accustomed with the word beauty. ..but how come when we were asked to write what is beauty I suddenly didn't know what it is? Of course, the wear out adage that says beauty is in the eye of the beholder crossed my mind, but I didn't consider it to express how I believe beauty should be. There has to be something in that object or in that person too that makes us say it's beautiful but I really don't know what it is at that moment so I just wrote beauty is something that brings pleasure to those who see, hear, experience, smell, touch that certain thing... It's the most I can say then.

So after having a brief introduction to the realm of aesthetics is there something more for me to say? Well, there were moments of "uhh, he's right, that's an idea that I have but I couldn't express it," "nice one I haven't realized that," and there were also "I don't think so moments."I totally agree with what Burke said that astonishment is what you feel when you see something sublime. That's the word. Whenever something or even someone which/who is beautiful or sublime comes my way the world suddenly stops and everything else just fades away. It sends chills on your spine so kinda like what he said that terror contributes to sublimity. But I am not really sure about finding beauty in something you fear. Maybe in the case of the handsome Dracula, or Brad Pitt in Interview with the Vampire, or Lestat in Queen of the Damned (haha).