This can be considered as a climatic part of the poem. The speaker has lost himself in the turning. As things have become increasingly confusing for the reader as symbols are merged, the speaker also shows that he himself is confused. The stanza ends with two questions. The speaker tries to figure out what the peacocks are crying out against but becomes lost in the imagery of the turning leaves, the flames, the hemlocks, and the peacocks. Is the peacock crying against the twilight, the turning leaves, or the hemlocks? In all of these cases, the peacock is crying against the passage of time, whether it be from the beginning of a new day, the turning of time, or the culmination of life from the poisonous hemlocks. Ultimately the speaker has a problem with the passage of time because it means facing death.