Rafael Obligado's poem is
romanticist, because it emphasizes nature, twilight, nationalism, and the
four elements. It is divided in four cantos: The Minstrel's Soul, The Minstrel's Wife, The Minstrel's Hymn and The Minstrel's Death. They don't follow a chronological order since the first two feature the "ghost" that inhabits the
pampas, the fourth tells his last duel with the Devil; and the third one was a later addition in which Santos Vega (alive) interrupts a match of
Pato and calls the
gauchos to join the
May Revolution. ==See also==