A Code Of Morals Comments

ONE: is a humorous piece that describes a fictional interpretation of a heliograph signal in 19th Century Afghanistan.

THREE: The title "A Code of Morals" creates the opportunity for puns in the text that follows, It may indicate the ethical advice that Jones sends to his wife ‘per heliograph': in this sense, code implies a systematically arranged set of moral laws or rules

TWO: It depicts the sadness of a newly-wed couple who are separated by fate, actually because Jones, the newly wed groom, has to go to the borders to fight for his country.

And Love had made him very sage, as Nature made her fair; So Cupid and Apollo linked, per heliograph, the pair. At dawn, across the Hurrum Hills, he flashed her counsel wise - At e'en, the dying sunset bore her busband's homilies. A very fine poem. tony

read, read, read and read thousands time the great Rudyard Kipling

That was a little tense though. So thankful for internet now.

Kipling's works showcase a genius for rhyme and meter that so effortlessly accentuate the colorful tales he tells. I will always consider him one of the finest architects of rhyming poetry.

nice and an interesting poem

His sense of humour was always in place. I love this

hahahaha! I would say that Mr. Kipling enjoyed a rather fastidious humor.... And I enjoyed it here in this poem quite abundantly too.... Though a quarter of the way through I needed to stop and look up the word heliograph.... Only a matter of technological difference between he and we.... Today the faux pas might have been the general overhearing it on a cell phone set to speaker mode...

a subtle showcase of love prestented with appreciable humour. The General isnt very immoral afterall, for he let him be. Have always been a fan of Kippling :)

Very funny indeed: -)

You surely know how to wrote, I like each and every poem of yours

Such a great and beautiful contest on this poem

.....I like how the husband even though isn't at home...he is still looking out for his wife...

By dash and deft I was left With mirth and admiration

the poem is really interesting.the ryhmes.the dictions the military register i so much love it'' it's a warning to the she-lady there. ''your rhymes and words all make up my day The poem you wrote offers my heart a play''

The poem is written to be fun and entertaining! Whatever it meant with regard to military matters of the day will be documented in various sources. There is an unwritten code for pranks in the military and what some soldiers have dared makes incredible reading! German soldiers even dared to try to kill Hitler more than a dozen times but of course he had the luck of the devil! Rudyard Kipling told stories people never grew tired of. A man who has stood the test of time.

brother rudyard eavesdropper are always lurking in the dark hills ares still being sack & burn their anger strap on their belly before you know you're with holy i don't know who is immoral man colin couldn't be he is gentleman *** colin the golfer

I see Pruchnicki is continuing his skilful impersonation of Yosemite Sam. Why he should call me adolescent because I pointed out the ridiculousness of Kipling's premise that a soldier at war would defame his general by flashing the details to all and sundry, I do not know. There are some critics whose intellect seems to desert them when they try to apply it to literature.