Illustrate with reference to "Ode to a Nightingale" Keats' art of sensuous depiction of natural beauty.

Keats, as a Romantic poet, is undoubtedly famous for his
description of natural beauty. One of the ways in which the descriptions of nature
operate in this poem is the way that Keats creates a division between the earth where
man dwells, which is characterised by suffering and pain, and the realm of the
nightingale in the sky, which is described as being above the realm of humans in every
way. Note the following description that establishes and explores this
comparison:

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And haply the Queen-Moon is on her
throne,

Clustered around by all her starry
Fays;

But here there is no
light,

Save what from heaven is with the breezes
blown

Through verdurous glooms and winding mossy
ways.

Note how the moon is
imaginatively described as an enthroned queen surrounded by fairy stars in all of their
beauty. The earth, on the other hand, is described as gloomy, twisting, mossy and dark,
a place where there is "no light." The "ecstasy" of the sound of the nightingale's song,
therefore, is strongly compared to the sufferings of mortal existence. Even though the
description of earth is much darker, it is still arguably sensuous in the way it creates
in our minds labyrinthine paths of "mossy ways" enshrouded by trees and
darkness.