A Modest Proposal and Other Satires

A Modest Proposal

If Swift is not serious, why does he take such a serious tone and highly - stylized formal language?

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This is a satire.... Swift was gifted in this genre (think Gulliver's Travels). He isn't aiming to make you laugh, he intended to make people think.

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