The key queer technique that “Ithaca” showcases is lateralism, a parenthetical vision in which any given account of reality is constantly revised and expanded to house ever more elements that have been occluded or excised.

[…]With a great ſumme obteined I this freedome.

And some of the soldiers since declare / That the gleam of his old white hat afar, / Like the crested plume of the brave Navarre, / That day was their oriflamme of war.

He still has nightmares resulting from the treatment he received from his captors.