Based on the epic simile, how should the poem’s listener picture the Cyclops’s eye?

The poem compares the sound and heat of the Cyclops’s eye to a smith plunging hot metal into cold water. The metal hisses as it cools, just as the wounded eye sizzles. So the listener should picture a hissing piece of hot metal in cold water, not a smithy full of tools or cold iron.

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