He advised that the poor should not be treated badly.

He thinks the poor are being maltreated, but they are too healthy to be belittled. Swift gives the detail of how the poor are being treated. The reason he uses imagery is to make people laugh and help the reader understand the point he is making.

Swift uses imagery to let the reader fully experience the story being told to them and to make it look real in the reader’s imagination. Johnathan Swift masterfully uses specific styles of writing to illustrate why the English should eat the Irish. The author suggests that poor Irish might be free from worries or problems in their economy by selling their babies to the rich people and eating their young to help eradicate unemployment and overpopulation in Ireland. It talks about how to prevent the children of the poor people in Ireland from being a burden on their parents or country and for making them beneficial to the public. By the time the book was published, Ireland had been under English rule for over 500 years. A Modest Proposal is a satirical essay written and published by Jonathan Swift in 1729. Although he was involved in Irish politics and was interested in pointing out the bad part of politics in Ireland, he got frustrated because there was no positive outcome, and then he channeled these feelings into writing. He later became dean of St Patrick’s church.

He received a bachelor degree from Trinity college and then worked as a stateman’s assistant. Johnathan Swift was an Irish author, clergyman and a satirist was born in Dublin, Ireland in November 30, 1667, two months after the death of father, he lived with his uncle.

A modest proposal 1729