Paradox VS. Parallelism

Throughout this week in class all we talked about was Paradox and Parallelism. I learned many things about these two topics that i did not know before including how they are alike but also different. Many poems that we read in class contained both Paradoxes and Parallelism in many different ways. A Paradox is a pair of opposites that are simultaneously true while parallelism is the use of phrases, clauses, or sentences that are similar or complementary in structure or in meaning.
This proves that the two topics are alike because they both deal with opposites in poems. The two topics deal with connecting two things that are really different and making them alike somehow. There are three different kinds of Parallelism, they are structural, elaboration and also antithesis. All three of these can be in any poem, they are in just different parts of the poem to prove different points.
Some similarities between Paradox and Parallelism are that they both contain two truths. They both involve some kind of structure. And they both need pairs of things in order to be what they are. Some differences between Paradox and Parallelism are that Antithesis and Paradox contradict eachother when they are written in a poem. Also you need one to contradict the other. Paradox and Parallelism are two concepts with two different structures.