Answer:
There was a consensus among members of the meeting to make use of subtleties to appeal to the denizens of Falkworth Town to sheath their swords and not cause any incendiary skirmishes.
Consensus: general agreement
Subtleties: Not overt, covert.
Denizens: Residents of a place.
Incendiary: Something that can cause strife
The answer is simple subject
<span>Swift is making the point that "Greedy Irish property owners exploit the helpless poor." In "A Modest Proposal" he sets out a satirical plan to solve food shortages by eating children. In this line he is making the assertion that landlords have already "devoured most of the parents" not in a literal sense. He is saying that landlords have taken advantage of, and exploited their tenants to such an extant that the next step of devouring their children as food is only logical, and not that much more abhorrent.</span>
The main difference is that literature's purpose is not just to make you forget from your everyday problems and have fun. Quite the opposite, good literature can often make you ponder life struggles even more.
