... his pleas for help futile. His pleas, however, did not fall on deaf ears completely, for his father, Poseidon, shortly caught wind of this after Odysseus pompously revealed his true identity to the blinded cyclops. The heated confrontation is explicitly depicted in the following passage: Its crackling roots blazed and hissed- as a blacksmith plunges a glowing ax or adze in an ice ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School