My first honest reaction to reading Swift’s “A Modest Proposal” was repulsion. Once I read, “a young healthy child well nursed, is, at a year old, a most delicious nourishing and wholesome food” my stomach turned (Swift). Call me soft, conservative, stubborn, or what you may, but I cannot appreciate something of this topic. I cannot understand why someone would take the time to write something like this, even considering the era in which it was written. Eating babies and children contains no humor and the detail in which Swift used made it even further nauseating. This writing is madness to me and achieves nothing. I do not have the ability to see how Swift’s mind has brought him to this
