Poem Analysis: Treatise on Purgatory

Poem Analysis Author Name Institution Affiliation The theme of the first chapter of Treatise on Purgatory is that the state of all souls who are in Purgatory is uncertain. They are exempt from all self-love and cannot change their positions until or unless God permits them to do so. This may raise several questions in your regarding what purgatory is. Purgatory is actually a state in which the physical death of a person takes place, but the soul does not die until the process of its purification is not completed. Roman Catholic doctrine holds that it is possible to ease and speed up the process of a soul’s purification through prayers of the living. Another way to provide comfort to the body and the soul after our death is that we should do ...