In 2010, 27% of American college graduates accepted jobs related to their major. This information revealed that the vast majority of graduates were not using their education to find work, making this education wasted and making many graduates regret having student loans (Plumer). But this data can be interpreted to mean that these graduates spent all this money to realize that what they majored in is not what they really wanted to do or what their passion was. John Keats originally went to school and was trained to be a surgeon. He was never really keen on being a surgeon, but his passion for writing was encouraged to pursue it (Kissane). In Keats's short life (1795-1821), he published three volumes of poetry but managed to sell only 200 copies of his work overall ("John Keats." 2014. The). In "Ode on a Grecian Urn" which reflects aspects of love in his short tuberculosis-plagued life. John Keats was born on 31 October 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' parents, who owned a prosperous livery run by their son-in-law ("John Keats." Shmoop). When John was eight years old, his father died after falling from his horse (Kissane). The death of Thomas Keats had a great 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 then sent to John Clarke's school in Enfield. He became friends of his teacher, Charles Cowden Clarke, son of the headmaster and a person with strong literary interests and radical politics......middle of paper......becoming a successful writer Keats arrived in Rome in November of that year and for a short time he began to feel better, but within a month he returned to bed, suffering from a high fever. The last months of his life were particularly painful for the poet in Rome it consisted of just one anchovy and a piece of bread a day to limit blood flow to the stomach. It also induced heavy bleeding, causing Keats to both lack oxygen and lack food. It was so severe that at one point he insisted on the. his doctor and asked him: "How long will this posthumous existence last?" Keats's death occurred on 23 February 1821. It is believed that he was shaking the hand of his friend, Joseph Severn, at the time of his passing. He died of tuberculosis in 1821… it was really depressing.