Where It All Goes Down
One thing is for sure: when you have a title like "Parting at Morning" you at least know what time it is in the poem. Once we have that squared away, it's pretty easy to see where we are, whether we're looking at the sun peeking over the mountains or the speaker checking out the sea. That vivid natural imagery allows us to imagine the poem's setting in a really clear way—we're outdoors, on a stroll, and it's a beautiful morning. Just channel Oklahoma!
In only four lines the speaker manages to establish a time and place while also using the poem's natural landscape to reflect the speaker's feelings. The sun is personified as a "he" in order to further the speaker's feeling of having a path set out before him. Even the mountains have a kind of symbolic influence in terms of representing the earthly "world of men" and all that it entails. So even though the poem is short, it's also chockfull of vivid imagery, which helps us understand the speaker's sense of having things to do and places to go.