Is There a Difference Between Phase and Polarization?

Polarization has some similarities to phase in that it relates to alignment, but it's a bit different. Polarization only is relevant to transverse waves because longitudinal waves don't have a concept of polarization. It refers not to the orientation of say peak relative to peak or trough relative to trough or nor does it relate to the frequency of the wave. So this concept of sort of rotating one relative to the other doesn't apply. An application of polarization is basically in polarized sunglasses which keep out certain types of light.