Desolation is a feeling of great unhappiness and hopelessness.
Kozelek expresses his sense of desolation absolutely without self-pity.
科泽来克毫不自怜地表达了他内心的凄凉。
If you refer to desolation in a place, you mean that it is empty and frightening, for example, because it has been destroyed by a violent force or army.
We looked out upon a scene of desolation and ruin.
我们向外望着一片荒凉、破败的景象。