The sunrise is quick and unexpected. Because it is so easy, I would suggest you try to answer this yourself. :)
The last sentence certainly sums up the rest of the contents. I think you ought to choose the second answer.
The speaker in the poem "The first lesson" is C. a parent.
The poem tells a story about a parent and his daughter in a pool or some other water, and the parent is teaching his kid how to swim. Of course, the whole poem is a metaphor - it's not really about swimming, but an important lesson that a parent has to teach his child about life itself.
D) they both had challenged the status quo of poetic expression