Transjordan in the Bible have the wrong ethnicity, but are "within the boundary of the 'pure' geographical location." According to Genesis, (), Ammon and Moab were born to Lot and Lot's younger and elder daughters, respectively, in the aftermath of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. The Bible refers to both the Ammonites and Moabites as the "children of Lot". Throughout the Bible, the Ammonites and Israelites are portrayed as mutual antagonists. During the Exodus, the Israelites were prohibited by the Ammonites from passing through their lands (). In the Book of Judges, the Ammonites work with Eglon, king of the Moabites against Israel.
The Destruction of the Bastile addiction to 'turgid ode and tumid stanza,' clogged with pompous rhetoric and frigid personification, is evident in the "Destruction of the Bastille" (1789)". However, David Aers, Jonathan Cook, and David Punter argued that "The poem displays some features which are worth noticing because they are not merely the product of youthful incompetence in the use of eighteenth-century modes of personification [...] Coleridge combines this use of abstractions with conventional apocalyptic analogies in which violent political events are seen in terms of violent natural phenomena." Following this, Grevel Lindop believes that "Coleridge was already a dedicated poet With such ambitious juvenilia