Would depend highly on what it was, so let's say Blake's The Sick Rose, would tie it to the historical context - child prostitution and thus a destructive love. And literary context - very different, based highly on imagery and nature. In the exam, if a comparison came up, could make use of that.
But I'm finding it difficult to visualise tieing context in in the exam (obviously with the extracts it's ok, but with wider reading). Any advice please?