In a smithy
one sees a white-hot axehead or an adze
plunged and wrung in a cold tub, screeching steam–
the way they make soft iron hale and hard–:
just so that eyeball hissed around the spike.
-the odyssey,
homer
based on the epic simile, how should the poem’s listener picture the cyclops’s eye?
a. like a smithy’s shop full of interesting tools
b. like a soft, cold piece of iron
c .like a hissing piece of hot metal in cold water