Question

select the correct text in the passage. which two lines in this excerpt from john keatss \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 mossd 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 oer - brimmd 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 - reaper 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,

Explanation:

The lines describe the ripening of fruits and growth of plants, which symbolize growth and maturation. "To bend with apples the moss'd cottage - trees" shows apples growing heavily on trees, and "To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells" depicts the growth and full - filling of gourds and hazelnuts.

Answer:

To bend with apples the moss'd cottage - trees,
To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells