The aim of this paper is to explore the male speaker’s voice in John Donne’s Songs and Sonnets. Songs and Sonnets contains not only Donne’s most complicated exploration of love but also the various fields of gender, politics, and society. Songs and Sonnets written in his early times is focused on the theme of negative and cynical love. In these poems the male speaker tries to find out his ideal and perfect love/woman, but he can’t get it anywhere. It results in the absence of ideal love and the male speaker’s negative thoughts for the identity of love and woman. The ideal woman is eventually replaced with realistic one, and persistent love with changeable one. There mainly reveals the male speaker’s governing and control over women in Donne’s early love poems. So diverse views of women in his poems are closely related with the patriarchal ideology. They are also connected with the political systems of contemporary England. Under the monarch of the Queen, Donne tries to express the desire to master women and possess the possibility of male-centered society. These potential intentions affect Donne to satirize the ideal love and resist the dominated power which is reigned by the Queen. (Hanbat National University)