Argos Recognizes Odysseus

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Often in paintings and poems there is a purpose or lesson behind them. Most of the time one can depict the lesson and learn from it. In the painting Argos Recognizes Odysseus, Theodor Van Thulden uses the dog to show that people can be loyal and faithful, in the poem “Argos”, Alexander Pope uses the same scene to show that people are loyal and faithful.
The poem “Argos” shows that even though how bad the dog was treated he waited until his masters return and craw’d to him one last time to show his love. The tone of the poem can be described as caring and sad which demonstrates that after the rough time without his master when he returns he still loves him.The poem shows a human experience from the fact that when the returns he is still loyal
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He was born May 21, 1688 in the Landon Rome Catholic Church (Alexander Pope). He was mainly Self taught by the age of 12 (Alexander Pope). Before the age 17, he was already know as a prodigy (Alexander Pope). He become known as the best poet of the 18th century, and the greatest verse satirist in English (Alexander Pope).
The painting Argos Recognizes Odysseus shows a sense of reunitement between the man and his dog sharing an emotion for each other. The mood of the painting is calm, which demonstrates the idea that they share a bond that is very strong and everlasting. The human experience from the painting can be seen as two things that had a strong connection and then were separated for a long period of time and at the time reunitement can still share the strong connection they had before. Theodor Van Thulden was born in S-Hertogenbosch and was often a sweet-tempered child (Theodor Van Thulden). He became a student of a portrait painter named Abraham Blyenberch (Theodor Van Thulden). Thulden was a flemish painter, engraver and designer of tapestries (Web Gallery of Art).He had a more calm and classical style (Web Gallery of Art). He obtained the status of Free Mastership at the Saint Luke Guild of Antwerp (Theodor Van Thulden). Theodor was later chosen as dean of Saint Luke Guild (Theodor Van

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