The gemara just concluded with a baraissa that described the three mishmaros of R' Eliezer and what occurs at each mishmar. The gemara now asks, what part of each mishmar was being described? If it's the first part, why describe the first part of the first mishmar? Isn't that just the beginning of the night? And, if it is the end of each mishmar, isn't the end of the last mishmar the beginning of the day?
Answer #1: We are describing the end of the first mishmar, the beginning of the last mishmar and the middle of the middle mishmar.
Answer #2: We are describing the end of each mishmar. If so, why describe the end of the last one, if that is just the beginning of the day? We are describing that mishmar in case someone lives in a dark house and he doesn't know whether day began. Thus, he doesn't know if he should say shma yet. Once he hears a wife talking to her husband and a baby nursing, he will know it is day, and he can get up and say shma.
The gemara brings a statement from Rav Yitzchak Bar Shmuel in the name of Rav:
There are 3 watches during the night. At each watch Hashem sits and roars like a lion, and He says, "Woe is to my children, that through their sins they have destroyed my house, and burnt my palace, and I have exiled them amongst the nations of the world".
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