A Poetic Prisoner-Abstract

A Poetic Prisoner takes place in a radio studio, with the talk show host reading a poetic letter dated back from the Battle of Sommes. During this scene portions of the poem alternate between the original poet in 1916, and the spokesman, 2007.
The young man writes his letter behind enemy lines during The Battle of Sommes in 1916 between the Germans and British. Patrick is in a trench scared to death that he will get shot by his own comrades, or be found by the enemy. He stays in the trench for two days, in spare of his own life. With nothing else on his mind besides the love of his life, he decides to write a letter to his fiancé.
The scene concludes with the spokesman expressing to listening that the author of the poem died, along with 700,000 others during The Battle of Sommes.