How do Smith’s themes (just pick one or several) relate to her quest for meaning or understanding?

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M Train by Patti Smith

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Prompt: How do Smith’s themes (just pick one or several) relate to her quest for meaning or understanding?

Themes: Dreams. Time. A clock with no hands. Coffee. Cafes. Memories. Travel. Books. Mystery. The dead, the lost, and the found.

To put it another way, what does she seek to understand? What is her deeper quest in this journey? How does your close analysis of one or several related themcgoes help to reveal this quest?