Love this song, but had not thought about its meaning other than it being imagistic. That it's primarily about a real woman makes sense.
A second layer of interpretation is more tenuous. Marian is an anagram (version) of Marina, which is a TS Eliot poem. In turn, Marina is an imagining of a scene in the myth of Pericles who finds his lost daughter. In the poem, Eliot contrasts the fate of Pericles with Heracles, who killed his children in a fit.
Worth looking up the Eliot poem, which has a similarly dreamlike atmosphere to the Sisters track.
Love this song, but had not thought about its meaning other than it being imagistic. That it's primarily about a real woman makes sense.
A second layer of interpretation is more tenuous. Marian is an anagram (version) of Marina, which is a TS Eliot poem. In turn, Marina is an imagining of a scene in the myth of Pericles who finds his lost daughter. In the poem, Eliot contrasts the fate of Pericles with Heracles, who killed his children in a fit.
Worth looking up the Eliot poem, which has a similarly dreamlike atmosphere to the Sisters track.