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"To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees, and fill all fruit with ripeness to the core." In these sentence,s the picture is of bending trees, and the fruit are completely ripe, representing maturation. And the growth we find in the following line: "to set budding more, and still more, later flowers for the bees".
Answer: The two lines in the excerpt that reflect the theme of growth and maturation are "To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees" and "To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells".
Explanation: These two lines make reference to the process of maturation and growth of the apples, the gourd and the hazel shells. In that way, Keats depicts autumn as the season in which nature finally reaches maturity. Moreover, the author resorts to different literary devices throughout the poem, such as imagery and personification. He emphasizes the power of autumn, which is able to make the apples ripe and to make the gourd swell.