jazzetry (n.)

到了1912年，美国英语中首次出现在棒球俚语中； 作为一种音乐类型，最早见于1915年。可能最终源自俚语 jasm（1860年）的“活力，精力，精神”，也许特指女性。这可能源自早期的 gism，意思相同（1842年）。

By the end of the 1800s, "gism" meant not only "vitality" but also "virility," leading to the word being used as slang for "semen." But — and this is significant — although a similar evolution happened to the word "jazz," which became slang for the act of sex, that did not happen until 1918 at the earliest. That is, the sexual connotation was not part of the origin of the word, but something added later. [Lewis Porter, "Where Did 'Jazz,' the Word, Come From?" http://wbgo.org Feb. 26, 2018]

到19世纪末，“gism”不仅意味着“活力”，还意味着“男子气概”，导致这个词被用作“精液”的俚语。但是，这是重要的是，尽管类似的演变也发生在“爵士”这个词上，它成为了性行为的俚语，但这至少要到1918年才发生。也就是说，性的涵义并不是这个词的起源，而是后来添加的。[刘易斯·波特，“‘爵士’这个词从哪里来？” http://wbgo.org，2018年2月26日]

“废话，不必要的谈话或装饰”的意思来自1918年。俚语 all that jazz “等等”首次记录于1939年。波特对研究的进一步观察如下：

"Jazz" seems to have originated among white Americans, and the earliest printed uses are in California baseball writing, where it means "lively, energetic." (The word still carries this meaning, as in "Let’s jazz this up!") The earliest known usage occurs on April 2, 1912, in an article discovered by researcher George A. Thompson, and sent to me courtesy of [Professor Gerald ] Cohen.

... By 1915, jazz was being applied to a new kind of music in Chicago.  It seems to have been first applied to Tom Brown's all-white band, which hailed from New Orleans. This was followed by many printed references to jazz as a musical style.

“爵士”似乎起源于白人美国人，最早的印刷用法出现在加利福尼亚的棒球写作中，意思是“活泼，精力充沛”。（这个词仍然保留这个意思，比如“让我们来点爵士！”）最早的已知用法出现在1912年4月2日的一篇文章中，由研究员乔治·A·汤普森发现，并由[杰拉尔德]·科恩教授提供给我。

... 到了1915年，爵士开始被用来形容芝加哥的一种新音乐。它似乎首先被用来形容汤姆·布朗的全白乐队，该乐队来自新奥尔良。随后出现了许多关于爵士作为一种音乐风格的印刷引用。

14世纪晚期， poetrie，“诗歌，韵文； 一首诗； 古代文学； 诗歌作品，寓言或故事”，源自13世纪的古法语 poetrie，可能直接来自中世纪拉丁语 poetria（约650年），源自拉丁语 poeta（见 poet）。在古典拉丁语中， poetria 的意思是“女诗人”。

比喻用法始于1660年代。古英语中有 metergeweorc “韵律”， metercræft “韵律艺术”。还有 scop-cræft “诗人的艺术”。现代英语在这组词中缺乏真正的动词形式，尽管已经尝试过 poeticize（1804年）， poetize（来自法语 poétiser，1580年代）和 poetrize（约1600年）。Poetry in motion（1826年）可能来自 poetry of motion（1813年）的“舞蹈”（也有 poetry of the foot，1660年代）。Poetry slam 于1993年出现。

It is only by a miracle that poetry is written at all. It is not recoverable thought, but a hue caught from a vaster receding thought. A poem is one undivided unimpeded expression fallen ripe into literature, and it is undividedly and unimpededly received by those for whom it was matured. [Thoreau, "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers"]

诗歌的创作只有通过奇迹才能完成。它不是可恢复的思想，而是从更广阔的后退思想中捕捉到的色彩。一首诗是一个未分割的、不受阻碍的表达，成熟后落入文学中，它是未分割地、不受阻碍地被那些为它成熟的人接受。

Poetry — meaning the aggregate of instances from which the idea of poetry is deduced by every new poet — has been increasingly enlarged for many centuries. The instances are numerous, varied and contradictory as instances of love; but just as 'love' is a word of powerful enough magic to make the true lover forget all its baser and falser, usages, so is 'poetry' for the true poet. [Robert Graves, "The White Goddess"]

诗歌——指每个新诗人从中推导出诗歌概念的实例的总和——已经在许多世纪里不断扩大。这些实例像爱情实例一样众多、多样且矛盾； 但正如“爱情”是一个具有强大魔力的词语，能使真正的爱人忘记所有更低级和虚假的用法，对于真正的诗人来说，“诗歌”也是如此。[罗伯特·格雷夫斯，《白色女神》]

And the relation of the forms of poetry to the requirements of actual song is so fixed, that the laws of the four great groups of metre which we now successively to examine—the trimetre, tetrametre, pentametre, and hexametre—all depend upon the physical power of utterance in the breath. [Ruskin, "Elements of English Prosody, for use in St. George's Schools," 1880]

诗歌形式与实际歌曲要求的关系是如此固定，以至于我们现在要依次研究的四个大组韵律——三音步、四音步、五音步和六音步的法律——都取决于呼吸的物理发声能力。[拉斯金，《英语韵律要素，供圣乔治学校使用》，1880年]