The book "How I Interpret Poems!" provides students in grades 10-12/13 with clear rules on how to translate the poet's language into their own. Starting from typical misinterpretations, this learning aid guides students to first analyze the form and then the content, leading them to actual poem interpretation and helping them access even difficult poems. A separate chapter addresses the challenges of poems in foreign languages. Topics covered include: Introduction, Nouns (Andreas Gryphius: Threnes of the Fatherland, 1636), Adjectives (Georg Heym: Printemps), Adverbs and Adverbials (Peter Huchel: Shadow Avenue), Predicates (Friedrich von Logau: Today's World Art), Sentence Structure (Friedrich Hölderlin: Bread and Wine), Rhythm (Eduard Mörike: At Midnight, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: A Similarity), Rhyme (Günter Eich: Latrine).