Bad Prompt = Bad Essay

So, I'm preping for this in-class English essay that I have tomorrow. The teacher was nice enough to give us the prompts that she wants us to write about, as well as an outline where we can write topic sentences, transition sentences, etc. One might think that this task would be an easy one since all the materials are literally at my fingertips, but unfotunately for me, it is not so easy. For one reason: the prompt. Dun dun dunn...

Of course, the prompt can be interpreted in as many ways as the poetry that I am to be interpreting. I mean, honestly, how many ways can one interpret "artistic vision"? About a million. It is as if she is trying to trick us into creating a bad essay just so that she can give us a bad grade. To write an essay from a bad prompt is like trying to catch air with a net, sands of grain falling through your hands. It just doesn't work. Two formless things mushed together don't create anything that has form, obviously; it creates mush. One of the things has to have form for there to be any kind of form at all.

So, what's the lesson learned here? Bad prompt = Mushy Essay.