Demons of Analogy is my undergraduate Honors thesis, and was awarded Highest Honors from the Oberlin College Comparative Literature department. The thesis explores the overlaps and contradictions between poetry and sound using the lens of static and interference. I draw from the work of Michel Serres, especially his book "Parasite," to connect French Symbolist Stéphane Mallarmé to the music of Pierre Boulez, eventually arriving at contemporary avant-garde artists such as Georges Aperghis and O(rphan)d(rift>). I consider how a musical poetics can speak to poetic music, and how the two can merge.