If you are looking to find what is wrong with the sentence, it is probably because ginger is a name. So ginger should be changed to Ginger.
Answer: confidently
Explanation: your definition of confidently is "self-assuredly"
"... but hold it <em>like </em>a candle flame..."
The main idea of the poem is up to whoever, as poems are very subjective, however what I understand, the poem is about a forbidden love.
