Assigned Stanzas

Copy of Poem (with stanzas boxed)

Understand the Poem! What is "Balm of Gilead"? Get helpful and interesting information here: http://www.poedecoder.com/essays/raven/#words

Wikipedia looks at The Raven
http://www.poedecoder.com/essays/raven/

Info on image

This has all the definitions printed out.
http://esl.about.com/library/weekly/aa101600d.htm

CHRISTOPHER WALKEN  Reads The Raven with very good sound effects, including a twanging guitar.
http://www.ojai.net/swanson/theraven.htm

Basil Rathbone's reading of "The Raven":
This is an MP3 file and there's a commercial before
the reading. http://archive.salon.com/audio/poetry/2000/10/31/poe/

Raven Film poem/teaser
http://www.trilobitepictures.com/raven/index.html

A multitude of Poe:

Poe timeline
http://www.heise.de/ix/raven/Literature/Authors/poe/life.html
Read all of Poe's works on line http://www.online-literature.com/poe/
See his grave http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=pif&GRid=822&PIgrid=822&PIcrid=81776&ShowCemPhotos=Y&
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=822
FIND A GRAVE http://www.findagrave.com/php/famous.php?page=name
 

Audios

http://classicpoetryaloud.podomatic.com/entry/2008-02-29T02_21_58-08_00

http://publicliterature.org/books/the_raven/xaa.php

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Raven#External_links

http://librivox.org/the-raven-by-edgar-allan-poe/

http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/features/patc/raven/index.html

The Interactive "Raven" http://www.teachersfirst.com/share/raven/

Poe's Raven http://www.comnet.ca/~forrest/raven.html

One of my favorite "raven" artistic works: Raven Art http://www.art.net/TheGallery/calm/Juried98/ravens.GIF
 

Crows vs Ravens

Physical Differences: Crows average around 17 inches long, and ravens about 24-27.
A raven weighs about four times that of a crow.
Crows have a wing span around 2.5 ft., and ravens about 3.5-4 ft.
A raven's wing sometimes makes a prominent "swish, swish" sound, while a crow's wingbeat is usually silient.
Ravens have pointed wings, while crows have a more blunt and splayed wing tip.
Crows have a fan-shaped tail (squared-off), while raven tails are long and wege-shaped.
Besides having a bigger, more powerful bill, a raven's bill is curved, while a crow has a more-or-less flat bill. Additionally, atop a raven's bill is a tuft of hairs absent on crows.
As a result of being larger and more powerful, ravens are the more efficient predator. (Predation is a very small percentage of crow and raven diets.)
Crows are more at home in the urban landscape, given their ability to be more socially inclined than ravens.
Diet: While both are committed to being vociferous omnivores, ravens are drawn to carrion (especially sheep), while crows may be less picky.

Ravens probably find food faster in the wild, considering anecdotes from trappers about how fast ravens could find the carrion in their traps.
Vocalizations: For the sake of basic reference, a crow's call is a "caw" and a raven's is a low and slow croak.

Crows exhibit at least two dozen different calls, while ravens can express themselves with 20-100's of different vocalizations, depending on the expert cited.


http://www.birdwatchersdigest.com/site/backyard_birds/bird_id/common_raven.aspx

http://www.humboldt.net/~tracker/raven.html