What does Wen Yiduo's Match mean?

Coldness and affection are the most prominent features of matches. There are only four sentences in the whole poem, but it runs through different fates "... a little singer with a flowing mouth and a king's ass", which truly and vividly depicts the cruel scene of fierce competition and intrigue in capitalist countries and achieves the purpose of "denouncing Western civilization".

The poet's eyes are cold. He can see the infinite sadness behind the prosperity through the superficial prosperity, the cherry-like "bright mouth" and "brilliant star", and the little singer who can't sing a good song, "all torn in half." The poet sees that, on the one hand, the capitalist system makes the American economy highly developed and gives people the opportunity to show their personal potential, and those "little singers with small cherry mouths" can rise to "a brilliant star" with their pure and clear voices; On the one hand, the ruthless system of survival of the fittest also makes society a huge meat grinder, which devours the intelligence, physical strength and life of more innocent people while creating some stars. People are struggling in the whirlpool of filth and suffocation. A little soft, it may be ruined and become a bleak and terrible "two bones." This is a world of human desire, but also an inhuman world! The poet looks at the world with a fair eye, which is a breakthrough and to the point.

While looking on coldly, the poet is not at peace in his heart. There is still deep passion in his fiery volcano chest. Although he is as deep under the words as the undercurrent under the glacier, without his love for life, how can he show such strong injustice and such endless indignation between the lines? The poet chooses "match", the creator of light and heat, as the image of the whole poem. (A glib little singer, a star or a dead bone, all coincide with the image and experience of matches) is symbolic. The reality is cold and the matches are so hot. The image of heat is in sharp contrast with the connotation of cold, just like the poet's complex feelings about cold and heat. In the conflict and contradiction between image and language, Wen Yiduo abandoned reality and missed his motherland, which truly reflected Wen Yiduo's volcanic emotional characteristics.