As 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?

like a smithy’s shop full of interesting tools
like a soft, cold piece of iron
like a hissing piece of hot metal in cold water