Jamila Lyiscott's Poem 'Three Ways To Speak English'

Jamila Lyiscott in the poem, Three Ways to Speak English, suggests that there are different ways to express the English language in their own “correct” way. Lyiscott supports her suggestion by explaining to the audience that she speaks in three different versions of english according to what place or situation she is in. The author’s purpose of writing the poem is to inform people about how speaking a different kind of English doesn’t make one inarticulate, in order to persuade people to stop thinking it does. Lyiscott writes in a humorous but urgent tone in order to convince “perfect” english speakers to stop calling hood or broken english dialects “inarticulate”.