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Frederika Menezes (born 1979 or 1980) [1] is an Indian author, poet, and artist best known for her book Unforgotten, a love story for young adults published in 2014.Her poem "The Different Normals" has yet to be included in the English textbook of the Goa Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education (GBSHSE).
The poem's biting satire obviously overtly attacks Dr. Swift and his writings. It also actively accuses Swift of misogyny and sexism. Swift's poem was highly invasive as it chronicles the unwanted entry of a man into a lady's dressing room where he sees the woman no longer as an elevated goddess, but as a normal human being with normal bodily functions.
The first 94 lines describe ten women, or types of women: seven are animals, two are elements, and the final woman is a bee. Of the ten types of women in the poem, nine are delineated as destructive: those who derive from the pig, fox, dog, earth, sea, donkey, ferret, [a] mare, and monkey.
Rondel (or roundel): a poem of 11 to 14 lines consisting of 2 rhymes and the repetition of the first 2 lines in the middle of the poem and at its end. Sonnet: a poem of 14 lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes; in English, they typically have 10 syllables per line. Caudate sonnet; Crown of sonnets (aka sonnet redoublé) Curtal sonnet
Sonnet 20 is one of the best-known of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare.Part of the Fair Youth sequence (which comprises sonnets 1-126), the subject of the sonnet is widely interpreted as being male, thereby raising questions about the sexuality of its author.
(Un) Gazier originally, a man who worked in gas transport; nowadays, it is a familiar way to say "Someone" (mostly for a man; this term is rare for women, and in such case, the correct word is the feminine form "Gazière"). [22] (Un) Quidam: someone whose identity is unknown or cannot be disclosed. [23] See also fr:wikt:Tartempion#Synonymes
woman's undepilated external genitalia (obscene slang) vagina (slang) bender: derogatory expression for a gay man, referring to the act of bending over to permit buggery. an expression for a binge drinking spree. bespoke (esp. of apparel) made to the customer's specification (US: custom-made, tailor-made) pret. of bespeak bill
different or interesting, exceptional; synonym for cool (short for "radical") [43] [56] [57] railroad tramway (obsolete) (v.) to coerce to convict with undue haste or with insufficient evidence the general term for the system of mass transit using trains running on rails: see usage of the terms railroad and railway (v.) to work on the railroad