![]() ![]() Upon returning to his "pago" (the region in which he used to live), Martín Fierro finds two of his sons and the one of Cruz. He escapes from virtual slavery at the fort, lives as a gaucho matrero (cunning outlaw), together with his friend Sargeant Cruz, and finds refuge among the Indians. He embodied that class in a fictional gaucho, Martín Fierro, who narrates his life before and after he was compulsorily sent to the frontier to fight the Indians-robbed of his family, home, and all his belongings. ![]() Hernández sought to depict the destitute existence of a specific social class, re-creating its world view and particular language. The poem contains a strong ethical, social, and political message, which its author, José Hernández, also delivered in his journalism and political life. Martín Fierro, the classic poem of Argentine Gauchesca literature, published in two parts (18). ![]()
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