Swift is suggesting solving the problem of poverty in Ireland. He comes up with the idea that the poor give up their children to be eaten by the wealthy. This is satire because satire states that is “a literary technique in which people’s behaviors or society’s institutions are ridiculed for the purpose of bringing about social reform and improving society”. He calls this a modest proposal even though that kids will be even which is funny because that is not being modest just letting a kid be eaten in order for the wealthy to have a good snack or even the fact that the kid will be eaten by anyone that wants one. He thinks that is a good way to reduce the population, the fact that a kid that is born just to be eaten would be crazy to think about.
Being modest means like low key, or the quality or state of being unassuming or moderate in the estimation of one's abilities, or the quality of being relatively moderate, limited, or small in amount, rate, or level. So in the poem he is not being modest at all. He was thinking about sacrificing kids in order to be someone’s meal. That is just crazy. If I was there I would say that that is wrong and he would have to be put in prison. To explain more about irony I think that he is trying to shed the light on the fact that the rules that we have are stupid.
In contemporary speech, when we call something ironic, we often mean sarcastic. Like saying that you have a bike and you are on your way to work and the tire go’s flat, you say “great my day can’t get any better!” To have that tie into the story it is weird that the kids would feed the rich people and not the poor. In the sense that you are trying to help the poor but proposal only benefits the rich. Basically, like most other laws, it is in favor of the wealthy and not so much the poor. He is also being ironic about the fact that the Irish Catholics will just keep having kids.
Being modest means like low key, or the quality or state of being unassuming or moderate in the estimation of one's abilities, or the quality of being relatively moderate, limited, or small in amount, rate, or level. So in the poem he is not being modest at all. He was thinking about sacrificing kids in order to be someone’s meal. That is just crazy. If I was there I would say that that is wrong and he would have to be put in prison. To explain more about irony I think that he is trying to shed the light on the fact that the rules that we have are stupid.
In contemporary speech, when we call something ironic, we often mean sarcastic. Like saying that you have a bike and you are on your way to work and the tire go’s flat, you say “great my day can’t get any better!” To have that tie into the story it is weird that the kids would feed the rich people and not the poor. In the sense that you are trying to help the poor but proposal only benefits the rich. Basically, like most other laws, it is in favor of the wealthy and not so much the poor. He is also being ironic about the fact that the Irish Catholics will just keep having kids.