If you say that one thing harks back to another thing in the past, you mean it is similar to it or takes it as a model. pitched roofs, which hark back to the Victorian era
When people hark back to something in the past, they remember it or remind someone of it. The result devastated me at the time. Even now I hark back to it. To return to a previous point, as in a narrative
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Etymologie
[ 'härk ] (intransitive verb.) 14th century. Middle English herkien; akin to Old High German hOrechen to listen, Old English hIeran to hear.