Read the excerpt from Swift's "A Modest Proposal" and answer the question.
Therefore let no man talk to me of other expedients: Of taxing our absentees at five shillings a pound: Of
using neither cloaths, nor houshold furniture, except what is of our own growth and manufacture: Of utterly
rejecting the materials and instruments that promote foreign luxury: Of curing the expensiveness of pride,
vanity, idleness, and gaming in our women: Of introducing a vein of parsimony, prudence and temperance: Of
learning to love our country...: Of quitting our animosities and factions...: Of being a little cautious not to
sell our country and consciences for nothing: Of teaching landlords to have at least one degree of mercy
towards their tenants.
In this excerpt, Swift briefly drops the satirical mask to reveal
important lessons from Ireland's past
real solutions for Ireland's poverty-stricken
further uses of the poor for Ireland's benefit
long-held grudges against Ireland's government