Hallowe'en in a Suburb

I've been looking around for something more precise, but unfortunately haven't had much time. Glancing around through some of the academic literature, I didn't find a whole lot focused on Lovecraft, but something I did notice was about half focused on his status as a "traditionalist" while the other other half focused on his status as an "outsider", and if a set of writings inspire both "ultimate insider!" and "ultimate outsider!" responses, then focusing on the contrast between the two could be a good way to start. Lines like "Not a breath of the strange grey gods of change / That tore from the past its own / Can quicken this hour..." embody this explicitly. Lovecraft is talking about ghosts and ghoulies and vampires and strange villages, the kind of thing that the average person doesn't consider part of the everyday, and is using it as proof that something is stronger than the changing present. In other words, something outside of the core experience actually maintains the old ways better than the core of experience. Sort of. Something like that.

Also, towards the end with lines like "And all that the morn shall greet forlorn..Shall some day be with the rest, / And brood with the shades unblest," seems to be a little like his own "Ozymandias", declaring the present to be merely a stop over to the future. Maybe for a person not quite in line with where the present is going then it is a calming thing to say "This too shall pass".

As for finding stuff specific on his poetry, I haven't found much, yet. I can keep digging if you need, though.