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Poe had a pretty bitter doom. Doomed to seethe down his soul in a great continuous convulsion of disintegration, and doomed to register the process. And then doomed to be abused for it, when he had performed some of the bitterest tasks of human experience, that can be asked of a man. Necessary tasks, too. For the human soul must suffer its own disintegration, consciously, if ever it is to survive.

But Poe is rather a scientist than an artist. He is reducing his own self as a scientist reduces a salt in a crucible. It is an almost chemical analysis of the soul and consciousness. Whereas in true art there is always the double rhythm of creating and destroying.

— D.H. Lawrence, from Studies in Classic American Literature

Correctly punctuate the following excerpt.

It is difficult to determine whose outlook was more bleak. As Lawrence states Poe had a pretty bitter doom he had performed some of the bitterest tasks of human experience He is reducing his own self as a scientist reduces salt in a crucible. But it is Lawrence himself that speculates the human soul must suffer its own disintegration, consciously, if ever it is to survive.