Hywel ab Owain Gwynedd is a prince, poet and soldier who was killed in battle. He is known as a poet of love.
This poem is boasting about the women he can get as he talks of his women, one for every day. The themes in this poem are mostly love, and how he see's each women differently also the betrayal as he uses more than one women and therefore becomes unfaithful.
He describes one women as "busty next" which describes her physically showing he describes what he see's not how he feels. Another he describes one women as "not to love her is a sin" again perhaps relating to her physical appearance rather than whether he loves her. For the Wednesday's women he uses the word "generys" welsh meaning mistress, he describes "dry old hymns" to please her, showing he will do whatever to impress these women. He describes his Friday's women as his "epic regular" suggesting they often meet, he says "she wants no baby" suggesting it's just for fun. He continues with "let her name be a secret for her husbands sake" showing not only does he fall for any women but also married women.
The poem ends with a sexual innuendo "lick up juices" this may be used to show how he feels towards females and that he can get whatever women he wants, as long as his "busy tongue keeps quiet."
I feel this poem link with Larkin's 'Wild Oats' Larkin describes a women as being out of his league and being a "bosomy English rose" again showing her physical appearance rather than emotionally connecting. I feel both poems focus on the physical side to women but Abse's poem shows how someone can get anyone they want whereas Larkin had more self doubt.
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