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“Contemporary Meaning of the Body in W. H. Auden’s Poetry.” Studies on English Language & Literature. 36.1(2010): 21-37. W. H. Auden viewed human body as the ideal model which showed a dialectical process of body and spirit to overcome the dualistic point of view. He put more value on man’s perception rather than conception. For Auden, the emphasis on human perception could be the best way to recognize man’s uniqueness and wholeness. In Auden’s poetry, such view was regarded as a precondition for heteronomy and interexistence. Terry Eagleton diagnosed that in postmodern situation, the shift from Merleau-Ponty to Foucault was one from the body as subject to the body as object. For Merleau-Ponty, the body was ‘where there is something to be done’; for the new somatics, ‘the body is where something-gazing, imprinting, regulating-is being done to you’. (Daegu University)