Where It All Goes Down
The setting of this poem is both very intimate and very vast. On the one hand, the poem evokes the intimate things we associate with a cozy home: a fire, "yellow corn," socks, and of course a cabin in the woods.
But the setting of this poem is also very vast because it basically includes the whole world. In the final lines of the poem, the speaker refers to the "world outside" (27), which is cold and indifferent because it no "longer cares" if we "live or die" (28). So the poem juxtaposes an intimate, warn home against a vast, scary, indifferent world.
That's the power of poetry and of love, though: both provide an intimate escape, no matter how vast or bleak the world is. They give us protection from the big, scary, outside world, which—let's face it—can be a cold place, without a pot of corn to be seen.