Love is? What is love? A question that many have pondered for ages. As children, we believe that one day our true love will come on a white horse that will sweep us away, and then we will live happily ever after. Then, as we get older and realize that the world is not filled with happily ever after, but instead the world is real, not a fairy tale. Often we think of love like that, only in the sense of a significant other. In “These Winter Sundays,” Robert Hayden shows us a love other than the usual form of love between a man and a woman. It shows us love in the sense of family and selflessness. William Shakespeare also gives us a picture of love in the sense of a relationship in “Support me not the marriage of true minds.” Additionally, Hayden shows love as a father who gets up every day to go to work hard for his family and heat his home for his family. This type of love in Hayden's poem is unconditional. Even if he doesn't receive a thank you from his family, he "I was told that love must be unconditional. That's the rule, everyone says it. But if love doesn't have boundaries, no limits, no conditions, why should we always try to do the right thing? If I know I'm loved no matter what, what's the challenge? (Gillian Flynn) It's all about? an interesting view of love that is completely opposite of what Shakespeare and Hayden describe as what love is. This author asks the question: “why should anyone always do what. you have to?' if she knows she will be loved no matter what, why wouldn't you want to break the rules, live freely and do what you want However, love is not selfish, it is. selfless and Flynn's view on love is the complete opposite. His point is completely opposite to the love that Shakespeare and Hayden describe in their poems. They believe that it is a choice to love someone. and not a