When Politics and Literature Meet. I am preparing for my first literature test, and I started re-reading Sir Gawain and the Green Knight when I was taken aback by the first lines: "The knight that had knotted the nets of deceit/ Was impeached for his perfidy, proven most true." If our politicians are the modern day knights then Blago is the knight in these lines. It is very poetic that the translation even uses the word "impeached."