English, 30.04.2021 23:20 nicoleaaliyah

Please help :)!! 2. Read the following excerpt from Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal":
I have too long digressed, and therefore shall return to my
subject. I think the advantages by the proposal which I have
made are obvious and many, as well as of the highest
importance. ...
Secondly, The poorer tenants will have something valuable of
their own, which by law may be made liable to distress, and help
to pay their landlord's rent, their corn and cattle being already
seized, and money a thing unknown.
Thirdly, Whereas the maintenance of an hundred thousand
children, from two years old, and upward, cannot be computed at
less than ten shillings a piece per annum, the nation's stock will
be thereby encreased fifty thousand pounds per annum, beside
the profit of a new dish, introduced to the tables of all gentlemen
of fortune in the kingdom, who have any refinement in taste. And
the money will circulate among ourselves, the goods being
entirely of our own growth and manufacture.
Fourthly, The constant breeders, beside the gain of eight shillings
sterling per annum by the sale of their children, will be rid of the
charge of maintaining them after the first year.
How does the author's word choice in this excerpt imply a message other than the
one explicitly stated? Analyze specific phrases within the excerpt and explain how
they help the writing to function as satire. Support your answer with evidence from
this excerpt and from your general knowledge of "A Modest Proposal."

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