T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets

In T.S. Eliot's poem "Four Quartets", the narrator emphasizes the difficulty of employing words in his poems in order to communicate his emotions. In a world caught between the tragedies of two Great Wars, the poet struggles to organize the shambled emotions of his generation. Living with the ubiquitious acknowledgement of the wars, the poet even has words influenced by the chaos of war. In attempting to capture words, he portrays his disordered emotions as "undisciplined squads". Also, he describes his pursue as a constant battle to capture the necessary words to describe the tragedies of the generation. Yet, he mentions, much like the battles of the First Great War, there was neither gains nor losses. Every word he encounters cannot perfectly frame these disordered emotions.