What is swift's overall purpose for writing the satirical essay "a modest proposal"? to provide a reasonable solution to the problem of poverty in ireland to show that poverty in ireland is not really a serious problem to draw attention to extreme poverty in ireland and encourage reform to shame irish parents who are unable to provide for their children

Swift's overall purpose for writing the satirical essay "A Modest Proposal" is to draw attention to extreme poverty in Ireland and encourage reform.

Explanation:

"A Modest Proposal" by Jonathan Swift is a social critic about the poverty in Ireland, and the possibilities to solve the situation, the general concept is to make people aware of the real conflict through a satirical and sarcastic proposal as eating little kids in order to avoid poverty in the country and to solve the lack of food.

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