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Haha! That "thee", "thou" and "thine" shit drives me nuts. What's worse, people tend to attribute those pronouns to formal poetry, even though those pronouns belong to the informal register. Sure, I get that most people are unaware that the surviving register is the formal register of Middle English, but most people learn in school that Shakespeare became popular because he wrote for the masses, not for the elite. It's not like it's some huge leap in logic. Have you ever thought of doing more than one blog entry on popular misconceptions about poetry? Next month is more of that Nana-whatever, but for poetry.