Poets

A collective, unnamed presence evoked by characters to stand in for literary witnesses and cultural memory. The Poets function rhetorically: they will distill, eulogize, and canonize a public figure's legacy after the fact. Though never embodied as a speaking character, this invoked chorus shapes how staffers frame reputation, morality, and posterity during political banter. The Poets operate as an imagined adjudicator of meaning whose prospective verses and judgments pressure living actors to consider how history will remember their choices.