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Similarly one may ask, do moths use stars?
They learned to navigate by using distant celestial objects such as the Moon and stars. Moths navigate by positioning themselves and flying on a fixed angle relative to these celestial light sources. If the position of the Moon or stars is not obvious, moths instead use geomagnetic signals – the Earth's magnetic field.
Herein, what kind of figure of speech is moth like stars?
Yeats's
The silver apples of the moon, The golden apples of the sun." It describes how the man hopes to find the young beauty, and embrace. her youth and her love. The use of the word "wandering" also tells of how the man has aged while searching for the water nymph who called out to him one day while he was fishing.