Swift address many issues using humor as a device to exaggerate a point beyond extremes. This use of irony is intended to present the problem in a way that reveals its ridiculousness.
In A Modest Proposal Swift proposes that the issue of poverty would be solved in Ireland if everyone ate their children. He goes into great detail of how this system would work. Here he says how good pork: "which are no way comparable in taste or magnificence to a well- grown, fat, yearling child, which roasted whole will make a considerable figure at a lord mayors feast or any other public entertainment" (Swift p.5)
Eating children is obviously a sick and wrong concept, but the intentions of the article is not to argue whether or not this method is morally correct. Swift's convincing argument is really meant to express frustrations towards Ireland's politics. It is addressed that Ireland is completely subject to England's power. Ireland little effort to fight back is shown through the example of poverty stricken families desperate attempt to find food. This article is affective in the sense that satire is used to the advantage of the theme.
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