"A Modest Proposal" begins with an account of the impoverished state of many in Ireland. ... Analysis If you do not realize that this proposal is satirical, you have no sense of humor or irony. ... "A Modest Proposal" is also literary commentary. ... Of course, one's proposals are modest and offered "humbly.... "A Modest Proposal" is accurately called one of the most effective satires in the English language. ...

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