Answer:
The quote is using the literary term personification.
Step-by-step explanation:
I'm not sure how helpful this will be. The quote is giving human characteristics to unhuman items. In this particular sense, the quote gives the night the features of staring through the window panels (we all know the night doesn't have eyes, how silly) but also it gives it the ability to crawl into its hiding spot a.k.a the corners of the home where it hides away from the light. It could have all kinds of different meanings whether it's in a literal sense of the night being mostly illuminated by the lights in the house through the darkness taking shelter in the dark corners or it could be metaphorical and represent evil being shined out by good. (Sorry this is so long)