Truth and Beauty

[cbmab]

Dorain Gray
Physically "beautiful"
looks are disbelieving/portrait shows his true colors

La Belle Dame and San Merci
Once again the woman presented is physically attractive and alluring
however it is the knights attraction to her that leads to his death

Ode on a Grecian Urn
help?

I want opinions/insights on whether or not these can all connect under the theme of truth and beauty. Please feel free to add or argue against.

[rainfall]

Truth and beauty are such broad terms that they hold subjective meaning for each person! It's funny, I rarely link "aesthetics" with the concept of beauty. To me they are very similar, because they both conjure up an abstract representation of humanity's most intimately optimistic and powerful traits.

[susancollins]

My general definition for 'truth' is the classical one: a correspondence between the mind and reality, apprehended by reason. My definition for 'beauty' is likewise classical: a _perceptually pleasing_ quality of certain literary, aural, and visual objects that are ordered into a unified gestalt, usually exhibiting harmony, contrast, repetition and variation in their parts.I would be interested in how you keep these things separate. If you do not,then what does either of them mean to you (since one is then equal to the other)?