At the news of World War I breaking out, Siegfried Sassoon quickly enrolled in regimental training. Yet most people don't recognize him for his war achievements. Today he is recognized as one of the most famous war poets of the era. World War I was a war of attrition and cost thousands of humans their loved ones, limbs, or lives. Siegfried writes two poems pertaining to these matters; "The One-Legged Man" and "The Hero", both of which show a part of war civilians can relate to, show the morale amongst the soldiers, and carry a common theme of selfishness and one's dignity or lack there of.

Everyone can relate to selfish and unselfish motives and the joys they can bring, even if one is unselfish the majority of the time. In the poem "The One-Legged Man", it states "how right it seemed that he should...