"beloved, please, baptize me with a kiss"

The sonnet is a powerful poetic form: its rigid 14-line, iambic pentametrical structure force poets to communicate their ideas within strict confines while connecting those ideas to the canon of existing sonnets, like another link in a network of potent images. Yaakov's sonnets are a testament to his understanding of the form, as his introspection transforms itself from the dilemma of the individual speaker to the dilemma of the universal reader - accessible without becoming "simple."