Kapos are the guards who are in charge of each barrack and work station.
He was an American poet, essayist, and a journalist. Also he was a humanist, he was part of the transition between transcendental ism and realism, incorporating both views in his works
It's an example of a simile because it's comparing two things with "like
or "as".
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