In "Goya's Greatest Scenes..." we seem to see...

 “In Goya's Greatest Scenes We Seem to See”  we take notice of Ferlinghetti's opinion of present human life. That present life is just as dark and marauding as Goya's painting suggest, only, in a different era. Ferlinghetti reveals his dislike of cars and their effect on the world, as they "devour America". "All the final hollering monsters of the 'imagination of disaster'... as if the y really still existed / and they do". The line "they are the same people / only further from home", suggests a feeling that Ferlinghetti hoped for a better life, or a better... situation. Stripped from the simplistic times we once had, full dependence on technology, living on a "concrete continent", bombarded with "empty" picture frames displaying assumed happiness, but epitomizing the general state...