After the Second World War, social realist concept had imposed the literary scene with the destruction of writers' freedom of expression, imposing the topics from political life. Having been gathered around the periodical „Krugovi", the selected group of writers under the name "krugovaši" had been forcefully resisting that view of literature and art in general. With the occurance of periodical „Krugovi" in which „krugovaši" published their poetry, in Croatian literature began the period of Second Modern (1952.-1959.) which eliminated social realism from literature and gave back the writers' freedom of expression. Within this frame of reference, the motive of love is inevitable. Therefore, this thesis is based on studying the latter in poetry of selected group of poets from that literary period (Josip Pupačić, Nikola Milićević, Zvonimir Golob, Irena Vrkljan, Milivoj Slaviček, Ivan Slamnig, Slavko Mihalić). Thereby, the poets' perspective on the concept of love is being examined as well as the freedom of expression in period of the Second Modern, influence of the previous generation, modern worldwide and European concepts along with the impact of„krugovaši" on future literary generations.