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[...]recent scholarly writing about literature falls short of the reasons that people read literature and falls short of the description of writing in T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets. In this third passage, the poem laments the "[tjwenty years largely wasted" between the two World Wars. Because language is "shabby equipment always deteriorating," every attempt that the poet has made at writing has been a "failure." On first reading, this passage may seem no better than the one in "Burnt Norton" that also describes the dismal state of language, only rewritten in more personal terms. Because the medium in which the poet works slips and cracks, he is frustrated and cannot find the words to say what he wants to say while he wants to say it - and, besides, he cannot really put what he wants to say in language anyway. [...]the repetition of the phrase "twenty years" and the reference to Dante's journey through heaven and hell ("So here I am, in the middle way") give the sense that that developing as a writer requires a long journey through which one develops interiorly.