Analysis Of Ode On A Grecian Urn

In 2010, 27% American college graduates took jobs that were related to their major. This information revealed that a vast majority of college graduates weren’t using their education to get jobs, making this education go to waste, and making a lot of graduates regret having student loans (Plumer). But, this data can be interpreted in the sense that these graduates spent all of this money to realize that what they majored in isn’t 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 never really was enthusiastic about being a surgeon, but he did have a passion for writing was encouraged to pursue it (Kissane). In Keats’ short life (1795-1821), he had published three volumes of poetry but managed to sell just a combined 200 copies of his work ("John Keats." 2014. The). In “ Ode on a Grecian Urn” that reflects the aspects of love in his short, Tuberculous ridden life.

John Keats was born on October 31st, 1795 just outside of London. He was the first of five children born to stable keeper Thomas Keats and Frances Jennings Keats. The young family lived fairly comfortably, thanks to Frances' parents, who owned a prosperous livery managed by their son-in-law ("John Keats." Shmoop). When John was eight, his father died after falling from a horse (Kissane). Thomas Keats’s death had a large effect on young John’s life. In a more depressing sense, it shaped Keats' understanding for 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 at Enfield. He became friends with his teacher, Charles Cowden Clarke, son of the headmaster and a person of strong literary interests and radical politi...

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...becoming a successful writer. Keats arrived in Rome in November of that year and for a brief time started to feel better. But within a month, he was back in bed, suffering from a high temperature. The last few months of his life proved particularly painful for the poet. His doctor in Rome placed Keats on a strict diet that consisted of a single anchovy and a piece of bread per day in order to limit the flow of blood to the stomach. He also induced heavy bleeding, resulting in Keats suffering from both a lack of oxygen and a lack of food. Keats' agony was so severe that at one point he pressed his doctor and asked him, "How long is this posthumous existence of mine to go on?" Keats' death came on February 23, 1821. It's believed he was clutching the hand of his friend, Joseph Severn, at the time of his passing. He died of T.B in 1821… now that was really depressing.