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albums

Noun
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

Books or collections of photographs, stamps, or memories bound together; in poetry, they evoke preservation, nostalgia, and the curated ordering of personal or historical fragments.

Detailed Definition
An album is a book or bound collection used to store photographs, clippings, or other keepsakes. In this poem, the speaker sits with “albums old and frayed,” suggesting a life being remembered through physical mementos.
Example
Example in poetry:
“By the fireplace we sit each night, / With albums old and frayed” makes albums physical memory-books; “In the album, faces bloom and fade” uses photographs as an image of time; “She scrolls a digital album on the bus” updates the object for contemporary life; A poetry sequence may treat albums as unreliable archives, preserving images but not full stories
Additional Notes
In the evidence, “albums” refers to keepsake photo books, a specific object some readers may not immediately picture in this context.; Found in the poem, Keeper of Our Days by Richard
Also Known As
collections anthologies compilations volumes
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