In this essay, I explore Auden's tendency to use personification metaphors for the mind and the body. Auden uses these figures throughout his career, which reveals his preoccupation with dualism. My analysis involves in particular two of Auden's poems: "The Mind to Body Spoke" and "Memorial for the City." What makes personification particularly intriguing to analyze here is how the target domain relates to a personified source domain. To discuss this relationship, I borrow terms from cognitive linguistics in order shed light on Auden's peculiar personifications. More specifically, I explain how conceptual metaphor theory and conceptual blending theory can clarify phenemona first noticed by classical rhetoricians but poorly understood ever since. In doing so, a better understanding of personification in general and the metaphor's function in Auden's poetry in particular is possible. [C.A.H.]