Misengender

I might relate of numbers, and their names, And fabled origin unfold exact; Misformed, and misengendered wonders strange, Begot of fancy, and endowed with names From fabulous antiquity derived; Telling their deeds recited oft in vain.

[…] themselves but the misengendered brood of the very spirit they deny.

Grigson sums up this almost utilitarian aspect of the state of detachment thus: Not visited enough, each poet knows His deadly fondness for his own mishaps, The way he fails to sort the full-time births From all his misengendered scraps.

The similarity between Ham's and Lot's story is unmistakable, particularly as it has to do with lineage and misengendering.

Despite the nostalgia of Chinese culture displayed in the narrative, Mr Butterfly in the ruins of Chinese civilization indeed 'misengenders' China.