The propagation of linearly and circularly polarized high-intensity femtosecond laser pulses in bulk media is experimentally investigated. The spectrum broadening is different after propagation in bulk media for different input pulse polarization. The pulse width is compressed after the dispersion compensation and the different compression results when using linearly and circularly polarized laser pulse are also compared. The effect of the input laser pulse energy on the compressed pulse width and its envelope is invertigated. The shortest compressed pulse width is 21 fs by using linearly polarized input pulses, and it is 22 fs for circularly polarized laser pulses. The experimental result shows that the spectrum broadening and dispersion compensation method is also valid when compressing circularly polarized laser pulses, which will benefit higher-energy femtosecond laser pulse compression. When the dispersion compensation is the same, the relationship between the compression result and the input laser energy agrees with the theoretical analysis.