"A Lady " by Amy Lowell
You are beautiful and faded,
Like an old opera tune
Played upon a harpsichord;
Or like the sun-flooded silks
Of an eighteenth-century boudoir. In your eyes
Smoulder the fallen roses of outlived minutes,
And the perfume of your soul
Is vague and suffusing,
With the pungence of sealed spice-jars.
Your half-tones delight me,
And I grow mad with gazing
At your blent colors.

My vigor is a new-minted penny,
Which I cast at your feet.
Gather it up from the dust
That its sparkle may amuse you.
What is the overall meaning and tone of the poem? *

A)The narrator uses a melancholic and reminiscent tone to demonstrate how time kills a woman's beauty and life.
B)The narrator uses a joyful and exuberant tone to illustrate her admiration for the woman's beauty.
C)The narrator uses an accusatory and bitter tone to criticize those who look down upon older women.
D)The narrator uses a loving and laudatory tone to exemplify the admiration an older woman deserves and her unique beauty.