Write a paragraph that objectively summarizes Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal" and explains his purpose. Review Swift's "A Modest Proposal"

To describe the most important ideas in Swift’s essay and explain his reason for writing.

Explanation:

This is the statement that best describes Swift's purpose for writing the essay "A Modest Proposal." In this text, Swift uses satire to describe a revolutionary, but most likely un popular idea: the fact that rich English people should buy poor Irish children in order to eat them. Swift argues that this will reduce the problem of poverty in Ireland. However, the text is a satire intended to criticize the way in which Irish people were abused by the English government.

each morning i wrote my name

on the dusty cabinet, then crossed

the dining table in script, scrawled

in capitals on the backs of chairs,

practicing signatures like scales

while mother followed squirting

linseed from a burping can

last one is the answer