Article: Mapping the mind and the body: on W.H. Auden's personifications.(Critical Essay)

"The will of one by being two At every moment is denied."

(W. H. Auden, "The Sea and The Mirror," Collected 413)

1. Introduction: Mind, Body, and Personification

Despite our traditional view of the body and mind as divided, one figurative way for representing the two in our thought and in our language is the unified method of metaphor. For example, because we have easier access to bodies than to minds, our everyday notion of body language means we "map" from the body to the mind to interpret the behavior of others. As Simon Baron-Cohen has argued, this normal psychological mapping provides us with a "theory of mind" that some autistic children ...

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