European-oriented, indeed Euro-centric, themes and styles would remain the norm in Argentine letters, especially from Buenos Aires, during this century. The (romantic) poetry as "La cautiva" or the latter "Santos Vega" by Rafael Obligado gave a lot of importance to the nature of the "pampa", sharing some elements with a picturesque, imitation-gaucho literature, purporting to use the language of the gauchos and to reflect their mentality. The first current is known as "poesía nativista" (nativist poetry) and became a literary tradition. The second (known as "poesía gauchesca") developed in parallel as a part of that generation's understanding of national identity. Although it also is a product of literary authors, this writing takes the voice of the gaucho as protagonist from the beginning. "Gauchesca" is related to "payador's singing", a payador being a modern equivalent of the illiterate medieval singers. A payador's work, in opposition to "gauchesca", is sung spontaneously.