Cromwell: Cromwell’s Puritan revolution inspires poets to question zealotry disguised as virtue: “He broke the crown, he burned the shrine, / and called it truth, and called it fine.”; His iconoclasm becomes poetic metaphor: “He tore the saints from stone and glass, / and called it cleansing, not a mass / of fear.”; Poets use him to depict moral absolutism: “He ruled with Bible, sword, and dread, / and called the silence, ‘God’s own tread.’”; His legacy teaches poets how revolution can become tyranny: “He swore to free, but forged the chain— / the same old fear, the same old name.”; A poet might write, “He said the king was false, the throne a lie— / yet built a throne beneath the sky.”; Cromwell teaches poets that puritanism often replaces one idol with another.