ABSTRACT
The notion of reciprocal exchange of ideas and thoughts proposed in the poem becomes evident when reading Utopia. The text seems to seek dialogue and exchange in a pragmatic and context-related setting, transforming rigid philosophical positions into manifest change, not unlike the poem's hands-on dynamics that transforms a peninsula into an island. In Utopia, great efforts are made not only to avoid war unless absolutely necessary, but also to spare as many lives as possible. As printing helped verbal descriptions of space acquire a figural and almost material quality, verbal texts started to become what Michel de Certeau has called "spatial stories". The island of the Utopians is two hundred miles across in the middle part where it is widest, and is nowhere much narrower than this except toward the two ends, where it gradually tapers. More's Utopia is an outstanding example of spatial modernity.
