In 2010, 27% of American college graduates accepted jobs related to their major. This information revealed that a large majority of college graduates were not using their education to find employment, wasting that education and causing many graduates to regret taking out student loans (Plumer). But this data can be interpreted in the sense that these graduates spent all this money only to realize that what they majored in is not what they really wanted to do or what their passion was. John Keats first went to school and trained to become a surgeon. He was never really enthusiastic about becoming a surgeon, but he had a passion for writing and was encouraged to pursue it (Kissane). During Keats's short life (1795-1821), he had published three volumes of poetry but only managed to sell a total of 200 copies of his work ("John Keats." 2014. The). In “Ode on a Grecian Urn” which reflects aspects of love in his short tuberculous life. John Keats was born on October 31, 1795 just outside London. He was the first of five children born to stable keeper Thomas Keats and Frances Jennings Keats. The young family lived quite comfortably, thanks to Frances's parents, who owned a successful livery run by their son-in-law ("John Keats". Shmoop). When John was eight years old, his father died after falling from a horse (Kissane). The death of Thomas Keats had a significant effect on young John's life. In a more depressing sense, it shaped Keats's understanding of the human condition, both its suffering and its loss (John Keats." 2014). He and his brother Tom were later sent to school for John Clarke at Enfield He became friends with his teacher, Charles Cowden Clarke, son of the headmaster and a person with strong literary interests and radical politics...... middle of paper ......becoming a writer at. Success Keats arrived in Rome in November of the same year and for a brief period he began to feel better, but after a month he went to bed again, suffering from a high temperature. Life proved particularly painful for the poet. His doctor in Rome placed Keats on a strict diet which consisted of only one anchovy and a piece of bread per day in order to restrict blood flow to the stomach. It also caused profuse bleeding. , causing Keats to suffer from both a lack of oxygen and a lack of food. was so serious that at one point he pressed his doctor and asked, “How long will my posthumous existence last?” Keats's death occurred on February 23, 1821. It is believed that he was holding the hand of his friend, Joseph Severn, at the time of his death. He died of tuberculosis in 1821…it was really depressing.