Walt Whitman’s Equality of Oneness Based on Human Divinity. The New Studies of English Language & Literature 51 (2012): 23-44. Walt Whitman pursued equality of oneness based on human’ innate divinity for American unity in his poems in the nineteenth century. So he refused to accept a dichotomy of view, which made the superior have power over the inferior. With such an idea of oneness, he believed there is no difference between man and woman, Americans and African slaves, body and spirit, the rich and the poor, the successful and the failed, the living and the dead, the Union solders and the Confederate soldiers, and the good and the bad. Therefore, he considered everything as divine and equal regardless of race, gender, and position. On the equal divinity, he wanted to integrate American society not by the dichotomous value system but by the unifying equality. He believed that dichotomy divided the society by making the higher control the lower. Thus, he wished that America could be integrated with the equality of oneness. (Woosong University)