 The Peasants ' Revolt became a popular literary subject . The poet John Gower , who had close ties to officials involved in the suppression of the revolt , amended his famous poem Vox <unk> after the revolt , inserting a section condemning the rebels and likening them to wild animals . Geoffrey Chaucer , who lived in Aldgate and may have been in London during the revolt , used the rebel killing of Flemings as a metaphor for wider disorder in The Nun 's Priest 's Tale part of The Canterbury Tales , parodying Gower 's poem . Chaucer otherwise made no reference to the revolt in his work , possibly because as he was a client of the King it would have been politically unwise to discuss it . William Langland , the author of the poem Piers Plowman , which had been widely used by the rebels , made various changes to its text after the revolt in order to distance himself from their cause . 
