Parsa jeihoun

Parsa Jeihoun (born 11 December 2000) is an English literature scholar, English language teacher, and poet. He is known for his work in English poetry and literary studies, and is the author of Forevern (2025), an English poetry collection.

Biography

Parsa Jeihoun pursued formal university studies in English literature. During his academic training, he developed a sustained body of poetic work, portions of which were published in established Iranian literary journals, including Asr-e Kerman (عصر کرمان). These early publications emerged from an ongoing creative project that was later completed as Forevern, an English poetry collection exploring mythic, philosophical, and autobiographical themes.

In addition to his original writing, Jeihoun has engaged in literary translation. His Persian translation of Thomas Hardy’s poem “A Broken Appointment” was published by the literary outlet Consefr (کنصفر), reflecting his scholarly engagement with English poetic traditions and cross-cultural literary exchange.

Alongside his literary activities, Jeihoun has maintained a professional career in English language education. He specializes in teaching English for international examinations, particularly IELTS, and has worked with adult learners and academic candidates. He holds the Cambridge CELTA (Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages), which he completed in Istanbul, and applies communicative and contemporary pedagogical approaches in his teaching practice.

Beyond literature and language education, Jeihoun has conducted independent studies in philosophy and history, fields that inform both his poetic work and his critical perspective on myth, modernity, and cultural memory.

Works

Forevern is a poetry cycle, authored by Parsa Jeihoun that unfolds as a continuous narrative rather than a conventional lyric collection. Composed of interconnected poems written over an extended period, the work traces the formation, fracture, suspension, and attempted restoration of an imagined realm called “Forevern,” which operates simultaneously as a symbolic landscape, an emotional state, and a mythic construct.

The collection is structured around a clear narrative arc. It begins in uncertainty and disorientation, marked by images of fog, obscured vision, and unstable ground (The Foggy Land), which establish an initial condition of existential vagueness. This state is followed by encounter and ascent, where love emerges as a guiding force through natural symbolism—mountains, rivers, sunlight—suggesting mutual struggle and shared endurance (A New Beginning). From this point, intimacy and presence dominate the central section of the work, depicted through domestic, bodily, and sensory immediacy (Waking Up Next to You, Who Is My Lover, Nothing More), grounding the mythic language in lived experience.

A defining feature of Forevern is its sustained symbolic system. The recurring image of the spruce tree functions as a central figure within the work’s internal mythology: at once lover, guardian, axis mundi, and moral compass. Other recurring symbols—fog, water, fire, illness, distance, seasons, stone, and flight—form a coherent symbolic grammar through which emotional states are externalized. Rather than remaining static, these symbols evolve alongside the narrative, shifting meaning as the relationship itself changes.

The middle and later sections of the collection introduce rupture and crisis. Poems such as Blight, The Tempest, Space, and Guilt portray Forevern as a realm under threat, vulnerable to miscommunication, emotional imbalance, fear of loss, and self-reproach. Here, the mythic space fractures into states resembling exile, purgatory, and descent, with explicit references to trial, waiting, illness, and spiritual suspension (Purgatorio, Process, Soldier). Love is no longer idealized but interrogated, framed as something that demands endurance, ethical responsibility, and personal transformation.

The narrative does not resolve through simple reconciliation. Instead, Forevern repeatedly stages cycles of loss and return, collapse and rebuilding. Fire and rebirth imagery—most notably in poems such as Phoenix Beneath the Hearth and Metamorphosis—redefine continuity as something earned through change rather than preserved through stasis. The later poems gesture toward renewal and re-rooting, emphasizing growth, patience, and conscious commitment (Rootbound, Where Our Roots Entwined, Now’s the Time).

Taken as a whole, Forevern functions as a contemporary example of literary myth-making, blending autobiographical material with symbolic world-building. Its coherence lies not in linear plot alone, but in the persistent return of its motifs and its insistence that love, identity, and meaning are processes rather than fixed states. The work represents Jeihoun’s central poetic project and the most extensive articulation of his thematic concerns.