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Other Poems on Politics (SB, pp. 235-39)

1. According to poems #109 through 121, what marks the difference between the tyrant and the good ruler?

2. According to poem #198, what is the best form of government, and why? How do you account for the strange turn at the end of this poem?

3. What is the difference between the King and the Peasant, according to poem #201?

4. Why would Thomas More place poem #244 right after poem #243? (Note that Henry VIII won Tournai during his invasion of France.)

5. These poems were published with More's Utopia in 1518. How would they affect our reading of Utopia? Do they complement or contrast with the Utopian view of human nature and of government?