Rape in the Hebrew Bible decried in the Bible's stories. It is not tolerated in the Bible's laws." Sunil Francis concurs in her book "Violence Against Women: A Christian Ethical Analysis on Rape", writing "The Bible always sees rape as violence and sin." Genesis 19 features an attempted homosexual gang rape. Two angels arrive in Sodom, and Lot shows them hospitality. However, the men of the city gathered around Lot's house and demanded that he give them the two guests so that they could rape them. In response to this, Lot offers the mob his two virgin daughters instead. The mob refuses Lot's offer, but
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