1. “Allons!” A Universal Call to Freedom in Walt Whitman’s “Song of the Open Road” Brandon Naquin Nicholls State University Department of Languages and Literatures “Wanderer above the Sea of Fog” Caspar David Friedrich Painting-oil (1818)

2. Walt Whitman b. May 31, 1819 d. March 26, 1892 Leaves of Grass p. 1855

3. “Allons! to that which is endless as it was beginningless” SongoftheOpenRoad -Whitman “Wheel Ruts in Dirt Road” Paul Turner Sargent

4. “Lady Liberty Leading the People” Eugène Delacroix 1830 “A harsh discordant natal scream out-sounding, to touch the mother’s heart closer than any yet.” SongoftheOpenRoad -Whitman

5. ”Done with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous criticisms, / Strong and content I travel the open road.” -Whitman “Rocky Mountain Road” Pamela Burgen

6. “Autumn Path” Dawn C. Bushong “Camerado, I give you my hand! I give you my love more precious than money, I give you myself before preaching or law; Will you give me yourself? will you come travel with me?” SongoftheOpenRoadissuchagoodpoemIcanbarelybelieveit -Whitman