There is no physical setting described in the poem, as it is primarily about the extent of the speaker's love for her beloved. The speaker imagines an abstract and largely metaphorical setting for the soul, saying, "I love thee to the depth and breadth and height / My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight / For the ends of being and ideal grace" (2-4). That this "setting" is so ambiguous emphasizes the speaker's experience of love as something that defies time and space altogether. As such, the true setting of the poem is within the speaker's emotion as she details her transcendent devotion to her partner.