Isay we must not speak the unspeakable name of love to the windlass stars, but hold it like a candle flame and whisper hope, each to another, ecstatic in the gathering dark. what simile is used in this poem?

A simile is a figure of speech which compares two explicit objects or the words are used for exemplifying it. In other words, simile refers to the demonstration of like characteristics from one thing to another. It is introduced by 'like' or 'as'.

In the above poem, a simile is used in 'hold it like a candle flame' wherein 'hold it' refers to hold love like we hold a candle flame preventing it to extinguish. Similarly, it asks to hold love preventing it to separate.

- "is not only a luminous passive watcher in the night sky, but it is a powerful force.

it does symbolizes love,   lust   and dreaming and is seen as a power symbolic force that determines and affects human behaviors and reactions.

in the context of the question it does remain you that he events are only taking place at night and the reader of the passage of time."