Question

Which two lines in this excerpt from John Keats's "Ode to Autumn" reflect the theme of growth and maturation?

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;
[To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees,]
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
[To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells]
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for the bees,
[Until they think warm days will never cease,]
For summer has o’er-brimm’d their clammy cells.
Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store?
Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find
[Thee sitting careless on a granary floor,]
Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind;
Or on a half-reap’d furrow sound asleep,
[Drowsed with the fume of poppies,]
while thy hook Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers:
And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep
Steady thy laden head across a brook;
Or by a cider-press, with patient look,
[Thou watchest the last oozings, hours by hours.]

Answer choices : (pick 2)

A. To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees,
B. To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
C. Until they think warm days will never cease,
D. Thee sitting careless on a granary floor,
E. Drowsed with the fume of poppies,
F. Thou watchest the last oozings, hours by hours.

Answer 1

The correct answers are A and B. They refer to setting up a home, that is becoming mature so as to create your own home. The other choices simply do not reflect an idea of becoming independent or maturing in any other way.

Answer 2

The two lines in this excerpt from John Keat's "Ode to Autumn" that reflect the theme of growth and maturation are, A. To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees,  and B. To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells.

These two sentences are giving examples of this that go through a prosses of full competition. which can be a synonym of growth or maturation, we can see this in the way fruit is described and how the grains go to a point of harvesting.

The other options don have any word that could be taken as a synonym or relative word to growth or maturation.