This study is concerned with the common characteristics of the film and poetry. The composition of a film isn't different with the composition of liter-atire. The metaphorical, metonymical, synecdoche and repetitional character of poetry influence from words to sentence, and from tone to theme. Likewise, interaction with frames or shots of film play a part the same. As the metaphor of poetry makes meaning through collision and combination of parts, the metaphor of film makes meaning through collision and combination of each shot or each element within frame. The whole system of one poem or one film is combined with sum of this parts. And the metonymy and synecdoche of poetry and film is useful to take the whole with part in the same way. The repetition of poetry and film embody the sameness and difference simultaneously. Each element makes new meaning by means of the repetition. If the compositional principle of film is same with it of poetry, it is useful to establish compositional principle of general literature works.