Read the excerpt from "A Defence of Poetry,” We are aware of evanescent visitations of thought and feeling sometimes associated with place or person, sometimes regarding our own mind alone, and always arising unforeseen and departing unbidden.

Which lines from "Mutability” most reflect a similar idea?

Or like forgotten lyres, whose dissonant strings
Give various response to each varying blast

To whose frail frame no second motion brings
One mood or modulation like the last

We rest.—A dream has power to poison sleep;
We rise.—One wandering thought pollutes the day

It is the same!—For, be it joy or sorrow,
The path of its departure still is free

as for symbolic actions, the narrator's tearing down the wallpaper in an attempt to find the "woman" in the wallpaper represents her struggle to retain or regain her sanity.   the wallpaper has been part of her confinement and by her tearing it down, she is freeing herself from that confinement.

the reason that neiterkob's daughter most likely tell the beginnings of the maasai is : to explain the readers the origin of maasai culture

with this explanation, the reader will grasp a better concept about it and not lost in the middle of reading.

                                            (hope this )

i would need the dialogue to answer this.