Social Ills in A Modest Proposal - Essay Example

The poor are deprived of their rights and are unable to bring up their children due to their poverty. He describes the social ills of Irish society in which, the poor are unable to get the things of their daily use.

In Songs of Innocence and Experience, a collection of poems by Blake, Blake highlights several social ills such as the children as laborers as depicted in The Chimney Sweeper, discrimination of races as depicted in the poem The Little Black Boy, and poor as sufferers of humanity. According to Blake, the chimney sweepers are unhappy, as they are “Crying “weep‘! weep!” in notes of woe” while at work but their parents are happy as they go to church for thanking God.

Wordsworth in The World is Too Much with Us explains the materialistic advancement of humankind. Nature is seen as a commodity. The materialism of society will bring destruction to it and society will be unable to restrict this destruction as “the winds that will be howling at all hours” without human control. Wordsworth sees the material progress and destruction of nature as a socio-ill.