Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal"

Reflect on "A Modest Proposal" and analyze how Swift uses rhetorical devices like irony (verbal mostly), hyperbole, understatement, absurdity, and incongruity in order to make his point about Irish society, the ruling class, and incompetent government. Is this Juvenalian or Horatian satire? Who does Swift criticize the most? What does he truly believe? How do the arguments of the persona of the "Proposer" compare to actual social commentary that comes from Swift?