She says,"The theme of this album is finding what's true about you and your life, and defending it and valuing it above all else.

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This ambivalence that was part of his personal life, the way he lived, would be a constant theme in subsequent Russian and still, in many ways, is today.

这种矛盾成了他个人生活的一部分,他的这种矛盾的生活方式在接下来的俄国,即便是在今天的俄国也是个不变的主题

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This is impressive: he dropped out of both Dartmouth and Harvard, and he did so to take laboring jobs, each time enacting a conflict between intellectual life and manual labor that would be a persistent and central theme of his poetry.

令人印象深刻的是，他从,达特茅斯学院和哈佛大学都辍学了,来劳作，每一次都在,脑力劳动和体力劳动间发生矛盾,这也是他的诗歌的核心主题。

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