It is chiefly imagistic and involves symbolism, often private in nature; you can think of Eliot and Yeats
In this excerpt from Leo Tolstoy’s "The Death of Ivan Ilyich", the sentences that best shows how Ivan Ilyich struggles with his life and his inability to let go of his past are:
"He was hindered from getting into it by his conviction that his life had been a good one. That very justification of his life held him fast and prevented his moving forward, and it caused him most torment of all."
In this two sentences, we can see that Ivan Ilyich cannot comprehend what is happening to him if his life had been so god. His past happiness does not allow him to accept his current situation. Ivan Ilyich is aware of this incapacity of letting go of his past and feels frustrated and depressed because of it.
The answer to the question above is "values individual thoughts and emotions" which is the characteristic of the speaker in "The Unknown Citizen" poem. The speaker in "The Unknown Citizen" gives much attention to the statistic of people. However, the speaker thinks that this is a problem because humans emotion turned to only a mere number.
