The present study sheds light on the theme of tension, exhibited in examining the form and techniques in the poetry of Iain Smith. This study is concerned with the tension developing between the artist as an individual who craves for freedom of expression and a community that is controlled by the puritan law of the Scottish Free Church. The dialectical relationship involved introduces art as a synthesis nourished by the poetics of natural realism. The research adopts, thus, anontological, interpretive orientationin which social and historicalapproaches will be consulted, thus proving the poet's classical inclination which is driven by a realistic vision. This vision shall be defined through adopting a phenomenological practice regarding the text as phenomenato be explicated