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Recollection

Concept
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

The thematic or narrative act of recalling past experiences, images, or emotions, often used to explore memory, loss, or identity.

Detailed Definition
Recollection is a poetic mode that reconstructs past experiences through memory, often blending sensory detail with emotional reflection to explore identity, loss, or temporal passage; unlike mere narration, recollection emphasizes subjective distortion, nostalgia, or the unreliability of memory as central thematic concerns.
Example
Example in poetry:
A poem that centers entirely on an act of remembering or reflecting on a past event; A poetic structure that mimics the process of memory, moving non-sequentially between different moments in time; A lyric dedicated to a lost love or a past time, using detailed imagery to recreate the remembered experience; A poetic form that frames the current moment as a meditation on history or personal past
Additional Notes
The act or process of remembering or bringing a past experience, thought, or image back into the present moment of the poem, often serving as the central theme or structural device; related to elegy and memoir.
Also Known As
Remembrance recall poetic memory reflection Anamnesis Memory
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