Is love? What is love? A question that many have pondered for years. As children we believe that one day our true love will come on a white horse and sweep us to the ground, and then we will live happily ever after. Then when we get older and realize that the world is not full of happy endings, but instead the world is real, not a fairy tale. We often think of love as just that, only in the sense of a significant other. In “Those Winter Sundays” Robert Hayden shows us a love that is different from the usual form of love between a man and a woman. It shows us love in the sense of family and altruism. William Shakespeare also gives us a picture of love in the sense of a relationship in “Suffer me not the marriage of true minds.” Hayden also shows love through a father who gets up every day to work hard for his family and also to heat his home for his family. This type of love in Hayden's poetry is unconditional. Even if he doesn't get a thank you from his family, I was told that love should be unconditional. This is the rule, everyone says it. But if love has no boundaries, no limits, no conditions, why would anyone try? always do the right thing? If I know I am loved, no matter what, where is the challenge?" (Gillian Flynn) This is an interesting perspective on love that is completely opposite to what Shakespeare and Hayden describe what love is. This author places the question: "why would anyone ever do the right thing?" they know they will be loved no matter what, why you shouldn't break the rules, live freely and do what you want. However love is not selfish, it is selfless and the Flynn's view of love is the exact opposite of that. His view is completely opposite to the love that Shakespeare and Hayden describe in their poems. They believe that it is a choice to love someone who is not a