What do I think?
"When someone asks about meaning, I usually come back with something clever like, 'Well what do you think?'" (Foster)
I used to hate when my high school English teachers would do this to me. I would try to find the correct meaning behind a passage, and they would always want me to interpret it myself. It seemed I could never get it right. It got really annoying.
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"the correct meaning... get it right"
It may take some time to escape the specter of the big imaginary book that contains "the right answers" to the questions we discuss in literature classes. That book doesn't exist.
Katie, your teachers were doing the right thing by asking you to use your critical thinking skills to come up with a well-supported argument for what you found in your own analysis of the text.
I noticed for your agenda item for "Prufrock" you picked a passage you recognized and repeated an interpretation you had used before. It may take some time before you feel comfortable launching out into the great unknown and offering your own original interpretation, but I hope you'll think about moving in that direction.