Summary of rugby chapel by Arnold?

Answer 1

Rugby Chapel is one of the well-known elegies of Matthew Arnold.In this poem poet wants to commemorate his illustrious father.Poet's father was a symbol

of purity and moral earnestness.Normally a little austere and intellectual,Arnold

in this poem is occasionally effusive and even sentimental.He pays glowing

tribute to his father passionately,and the poignant emotion can be distinctly

heard in every syllable.Yet the classical restraint is not undermined.His grief

is genuine.but he knows how to control it. He does not give way to emotion as

Shelley does in Adonais.The poem was written fifteen years after the death of

Dr.Arnold,and therefore,it is almost emotion recollected in tranquillity.For

it is the Rugby Chapel which reminds him of his father.The poem is strikingly

meditative in spirit.The poet does not mourn the death of his father.He simply

mourns the weakness and weariness,the suffering and misery of mankind,who

have been ed astray, and whom his father,ike God's good angel,has come to

recue.He glorifies his father and doe not shed tears over his death.

Answer 2

"Rugby Chapel" is a poem written by Matthew Arnold in 1857 but not published until 1867. This poem is a tribute to Arnold's dead father, who was his mentor and inspiration for much of his work.