This poem makes use of many places as symbols. It refers to a globe, to three continents by name, to the ocean, and to the shore. However, it does not take place in any of those locations. In fact, the poem does not specify a physical setting at all. It is not the location of the poem's events that is significant here. The "place" that it explores, the thing it takes place in, is a relationship. The events of the poem are all contained within the marriage between the speaker and the beloved.