Goya’s painting “The Execution of the Third of May” is a visual work of art combined with Ferlinghetti’s poem “In Goya’s greatest scenes we seem to see.” Both of the works create a continuing theme of man’s inhumanity to man and relate to society today. Ferlinghetti writes that “In Goya’s greatest scenes we seem to see the people of the world that “…writhe upon the page in a veritable rage of adversity.” (Ferlinghetti, 6-8) This quote from the poem compliments the paining very well. In the painting, we see people surrounding a man wearing a white shirt who show their fear and hardship in front of the men with pointing bayonets. While there are some people still alive but distressed, others have already been executed. They are all victims