Which word in the excerpt from Sara Teasdale's "Places" has a denotation that means “strange and frightening”?
Places I love come back to me like music—
Mid-ocean, midnight, the waves buzz *drowsily*;
In the ship's deep churning the *eerie* phosphorescence
Is like the *souls* of people who were drowned at sea,
And I can hear a man's voice, speaking, *hushed*, insistent,
At midnight, in mid-ocean, hour on hour to me.