How does the personification in the lines “Time lifts the curtain unawares, / And Sorrow looks into her face…” affect meaning?

A) When time lifts the curtain, the woman is shamed that she has been exposed.

B) By making time a character, it illustrates how aging causes sorrow and suffering.

C) Sorrow contrasts with the joy in the first stanza, which shows readers that maintaining pardah protects women from sadness.

D) Sorrow can see the woman’s tears, and that forces readers to question whether pardah protects women or oppresses them.