“A Modest Proposal” by Jonathan Swift is a satirical work that gives an extremely sarcastic solution to the problems that Ireland was having with poverty and overpopulation in the 1700s. He gives a series of unrealistic and simply absurd solutions to the problem that include the harsh treatment of children. The complete title of the work is "A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People from Being a Burden to their Parents, or …showed first 75 words of 1224 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1224 total…and hyperbole rather than realism and truthfulness. It was extremely effective because it showed how absurd the actions of people as a result of the poverty that struck Ireland were. Swift used purpose, tone, mood, a first-person point-of-view, metaphor, and examples to reflect this revolutionary style. “A Modest Proposal” was everything but modest because I don’t know about you, but I can’t imagine what the meat of a human body would taste like.