The Wasp
rhymed verse
playful
The wasp and all his numerous family I look upon as a major calamity. He throws open his nest with prodigality, But I distrust his waspitality.
The Wasp - meaning Summary
Comic Dread of Wasps
Nash’s short poem presents a speaker’s comic aversion to wasps, declaring them a major calamity and distrusting their open nests as false hospitality. The tone is playful and hyperbolic, turning a common insect encounter into exaggerated fear. The poem compresses this reaction into a neat, epigrammatic couplet, making a lighthearted statement about human irritation and the instinct to read hostile intent into nature’s behavior.
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