Question

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

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.