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