When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd Whitman's encounter with the lilacs in bloom in his mother's yard caused the flowers to become "viscerally bound to the memory of Lincoln's death". According to Gregory Eiselein: In the weeks before Lincoln's assassination, Whitman observed the planet Venus shining brightly in the evening sky. He later wrote of the observation, "Nor earth nor sky ever knew spectacles of superber beauty than some of the nights lately here. The western star, Venus, in the earlier hours of evening, has never been so large, so clear; it seems as if it told something, as if it held rapport indulgent with humanity,
Extraterrestrial places in the Cthulhu Mythos the same star cluster as Abbith, Xoth, and Zaoth. In Lin Carter's "The Feaster from the Stars: The History of Yzduggor the Eremite", Ymar is said to orbit the star Algol and to be the homeworld of the Great Old One "Zvilpogghua", an offspring of Tsathoggua (See Algol). Yuggoth (or Iukkoth) is the dwarf planet Pluto. It is home to the Mi-Go, a race of fungi-crustacean of Lovecraft's invention. In Richar A. Lupoff's "Discovery of the Ghooric Zone—March 15, 2337", it alternately appears as an enormous planet that orbits on the rim of the Solar System, coinciding with the hypothetical