"A Modest Proposal" is an essay that uses satire to make it's point. A satire is a literary work that attacks or pokes fun at vices, abuses, stupidity, and/or any other fault or imperfection. A satire critisizes someone or something, using wit and clever wording.
Jonathan Swift wrote "A Modest Proposal" to call attention to abuses inflicted on irish Catholics by well-to-do English Protestants. Because the whole point of this writing was to point out abuses and conflict this makes the writing considered a satire.
A satire simply is having one subject in a piece of writing and in that writing you are pointing out everthing on that subject. There are all different ways of satires. You can be critisizing it, complimenting it, abusing basically just writing anything about that one subject. So yes, this particular piece A Modest Proposal does qualify as a satire.
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