Poetry Analysis Les Murray - Driving Through Sawmill Towns.
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Poetry Analysis Les Murray - Driving Through Sawmill Towns Les Murray's, "Driving Through Sawmill Towns" explains the journey of a man driving through a sawmill town and his observations, as is suggested by the title of the poem. Although extremely superficial in his description of the speaker's journey, Murray succeeds in portraying a great deal of emotion. Strong and vivid imagery serves in evoking much thought and emotion amongst its readers, with a slow and steady rhythm and a mood that is much laid back at times, although the rhythm and the mood come about change through out the progression of this piece. We see depicted the many different perspectives with which the speaker observes the town, from that of the working men and those of the women, and even of the seasons. Enter the first stanza, and we are met with the speaker's journey into this unknown town. At first...

