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In evaluating the figure of Frank País, the leader of the underground insurrectional movement in Santiago de Cuba during the struggle against the Batista dictatorship, the national historiography emphasizes his political career, neglecting, on occasion, other fundamental aspects of its humanistic heritage, including truncates them his poetic production. This paper provides the reader with preliminary approaches regarding this facet of the revolutionary leader, little known by the critic.

In Santiago de Cuba, during the second half of the nineteenth century, there was a cultural environment that favored the emergence of different periodicals were ordered to disclose, among other genres, poetic creations of the time. The topic of the woman and her multiple social roles was one of the themes worked. In this article, some generalities about the female lyrical subject of the nineteenth century appeared in the poetry of these newspapers are available, the analysis of some of them is made, which can offer general considerations as to the projection of the lyrics over the years and his relationship with women.

In evaluating the figure of Frank País, the leader of the underground insurrectional movement in Santiago de Cuba during the struggle against the Batista dictatorship, the national historiography emphasizes his political career, neglecting, on occasion, other fundamental aspects of its humanistic heritage, including truncates them his poetic production. This paper provides the reader with preliminary approaches regarding this facet of the revolutionary leader, little known by the critic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]