The poem The Joyous Dead by Charles Baudelaire and the artwork The Thankful Poor by Henry Ossawa Tanner have different messages. The poem Joyous Dead conveys the message that it is a joy to be dead, that no one will really miss you, that something so small could have gone wrong in your life and it is better to be dead than to face the problem. The artwork Thankful Poor conveys the message that they are grateful for everything they have, for being alive, for still having food on the table, and for still having each other. The things that both works have in common are that the poem The Joyous Dead could be about a homeless person and when Charles Baudelaire says "Go through my ruin then, without remorse, and tell me if any torture remains, for this old body without soul, dead among the dead”, this could mean that no one will miss me because no one knows me. The artwork Thankful Poor is about poverty, and homeless and poor are both people living in poverty considered an expression of oneself, one expresses itself in a negative way, talking about death, and the other in a positive way, giving you the idea of ​​being grateful for what you already have