Fanciful ( page 167 ).
Questions.
1. What is the meaning of fanciful? 2. What does fantastic add to the meaning of fanciful? 3. How does grotesque especially differ from the fanciful or fantastic? 4. How does visionary differ from fanciful?
Examples.
Come see the north wind's masonry,
... his wild work;
So ——, so savage, naught cares he
For number or proportion.
What —— tints the year puts on,
When falling leaves falter through motionless air
Or numbly cling and shiver to be gone!
Plays such —— tricks before high heaven
As make the angels weep.