Janice Townley Moore's Poem 'To A Wasp'

Janice Townley Moore's poem "To a Wasp" is a story about a women preparing a cheesecake. A wasp flies in through a small opening of the screen in the kitchen window and flies right into the cheesecake batter. 'The mixer whirling\your legs, wings, stinger/churning into such"(Moore lines 8-10). The wasp gets mixed into the batter and eventually eaten. This poem is a poem that uses figurative language. "you dived/ no chance to swim ashore" (Moore lines 5-6). The author uses words like dive and swim in the poem when referring to the wasps which symbolize human like characteristics. When the wasps dives into the batter its like the wasp was aiming for the batter purposely to taste the sugar filled batter. The way swim is used figuratively in the