There are still many challenges in the poet's ability.

Easy to lose yourself

The issue of the poet’s creative personality and character has been mentioned many times when poets, critics, readers and even the press, seek and hope to find new, unique poetic voices with unique features that cannot be mixed. However, it is not easy to filter out such faces and voices as well as to clearly point out their personality and character in today’s overlapping and mixed poetic life.

Sharing at the discussion, poet Dang Huy Giang said: For a writer, courage is self-confidence, self-mastery in all conditions and circumstances, to the absolute level. Besides, not following others, not being like others, is also a requirement and also to the absolute level. It is thanks to courage that differences and uniqueness are formed and established. However, there was a time when many poets abandoned their strengths and followed their weaknesses. Originally writing love poems very well, but then turning to writing production and combat poems... to suit the times. Then production and combat poems... also went nowhere and became inadequate. From there, they lost themselves and of course became writers without courage.

With the development of today's society, publishing poetry is too easy. Anyone can publish a collection of poems in newspapers and magazines. Anyone can publish a book. And self-publishing poetry via Facebook is much easier and freer. Every household and every person can write and publish poetry. Therefore, publishing poetry so easily is also a challenge in terms of courage for writers, especially for those who are not talented and have some self-delusion. And in this case, self-confidence and self-control become excessive, becoming obviously counterproductive.

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"The writer's courage is only truly honored if the writer is truly talented" - poet Dang Huy emphasized.

Sharing the same point of view, poet Nguyen Quang Hung, in his actual composition and criticism over the years, has witnessed many cases of sudden breakthroughs and sudden brilliance. But in the process of finding a clearer image of one's own face, one gradually compromises with the state of fascination, soaring and the initial sparkle that one has achieved. As well as the concern for innovation, renewal, and transformation of oneself gradually becomes secondary to the most important thing at the moment: to hold the throne, compare superiors and inferiors, win awards, titles, take advantage of the press and promote communication for one's own name... Those things invisibly make innocent, excited and angular poetry gradually stagnate, become monotonous, mediocre and gradually become tired and familiar in new compositions.

The worrying thing is that it creates a state of confusion between the individual writer and himself, between the group of writers in common work, in movement activities. At that time, not from the outside, but the poet himself is the most direct and dangerous threat to his talent and personality.

Therefore, poet Nguyen Quang Hung said: "Courage or personality does not come naturally, nor does it stay stable and steadfast forever once formed. It requires experience to build courage, and knowledge and creative fire, innovation are indispensable to shape and color personality."

The seminar attracted a large audience to participate.

Need reader support

According to poet Nguyen Viet Chien, "The courage of a poet is something that cannot be easily acquired by a writer. It is a special quality that must be honed, forged, and tested over time. From a deeper perspective, we see that the courage of a writer also depends on his life experience, his own talent and creative energy. If these two factors are lacking, I think that courage will hardly succeed on the difficult, arduous, and challenging path of true poetry."

According to poet Bui Tuyet Mai, to have a work that lasts through the years, the author must possess many special elements of ideology, emotion, psychology, personality, determination and talent as well as professional courage to overcome all difficulties and challenges. Besides these factors, readers are also an important motivation to help poets maintain their professional courage.

"Poetry in particular, literature in general - the result of the author's labor continues to go through levels of experience - enjoyment and strict testing by readers. In that sense, it can be said that the public's need to enjoy literature and art in the spiritual life of the real world has a great impact on the poet's creative life. At the same time, their personality, morality, talent and works in the process of interacting with the public have had a great influence, even creating the style and aesthetics of an entire generation, dominating the ideology of an entire era.

However, in Vietnam today, the fact that most literary readers are not well prepared and trained is a barrier to the inheritance and development of literature. Observing many events in real life that have taken place over the past long time, I have noticed that many individuals and agencies have not paid attention to the spiritual foundation of society, especially in the field of literature and art. They have not honored the reading culture and oriented readers as well as true literary values" - poet Bui Tuyet Mai added.

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Therefore, according to poet Bui Tuyet Mai, we need to have readers who love literature to continue the tradition of creativity based on the rich and diverse national cultural treasure of our country. Because the public will be the source of encouragement for the movement of professional composition and performance with high art and modern aesthetics.

Source: https://toquoc.vn/con-nhieu-thach-thuc-trong-ban-linh-cua-nguoi-lam-tho-20240224140351512.htm