How does the poet simile comparing a life's Ambitions and a faulty pilot light contribute to the central idea of the poem?

Question

Commonlit "The Coming of Night "

Answer 1

When ambition, like a faulty

pilot light, sputters

and goes out and the abstract

spark of hunger with it

The speaker compares ambition to a faulty pilot light and says that both "go out." The speaker is saying that both life's ambitions and a faulty pilot light come to an end and that they cannot last forever.